Francisco de Gilabert

Finely bound, first collected edition of Discursos Sobre La Calidad Del Principado De Cataluna, Inclinacion De Sus Habitadores, Y Su Govierno.

• Francisco de Gilabert (Spanish).
• Lerida: Luis Menescal, 1616.
• 5 parts in one volume.
• Woodcut armorial shield on general and sectional titles, large woodcut opening initials and repeated type ornament.
• Bound in early 20th-century red morocco, sides with white and green onlays and all-over gilt tooling forming a strapwork design with massed pointille tools and fleurons at center, spine compartments with repeated white fleuron in square green onlaid border, gilt doublures, red silk doublures and endpapers, all edges gilt.

The collected edition cited by Palau has a variant title and is undated. Considering it 'later' than the separate issues, Palau calls for 12 preliminary leaves as opposed to 8. The present copy, with 8 preliminary leaves, is dated 1616 on the general title and part titles (as are the separate issues). Goldsmith G-118 (4 parts only).

With 2 leather bookplates of Isidoro Fernandez (1878-1963).