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Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga

La Araucana: dirigida al rey Don Felipe nuestro señor

D. Antonio de Sancha

1776

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Robert Southey's copy of La Araucana.

  • Sold as a set of 2.
  • Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga (Spanish).
  • Madrid: D. Antonio de Sancha, 1776. 
  • Octavos.
  • Three parts in two volumes, each with their own title pages, part one with an additional half-title.
  • Includes an engraved portrait, folding map of Chile, and 3 plates.
  • Bound in contemporary full vellum with gilt border, two black labels to each spine, lettering in gilt.
  • Housed in a brown cloth-covered slipcase, black label with gilt titling.


Robert Southey's name and 1796 written on the verso of the ffep of each volume, with a trimmed version of Southey's bookplate on volume one. The bookplate was added around 1813, since Thomas Bewick did not fulfill the commission from Southey until 7 August 1813, upon which it was laid into every book in Southey's personal library. Volume two includes a four-line pencil provenance, stating it was bought from a bookseller in New York City, June 1871, and signed J. W. Dodd.

Provenance

Robert Southey

J. W. Dodd

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Both labels at tail of spine worn, volume one label almost entirely gone, small chip to upper label on volume one.

Binding carefully reinforced in the 20th century, with new head and tailbands and new endpapers added, binding tightened, almost no outward signs of repair.

Occasional light toning throughout.

No marginalia.

Language

Spanish

Subject

Travel, topography and voyages

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