SERRANO (SERRAÕ), GASPAR.

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 34

SERRANO (SERRAÕ), GASPAR.

Historia Evangelica [History of the Church]. pp. 63. * BOUND WITH: SERRANO, GASPAR. Epistola Aurea de Contemptu Mundi, et Eius Vanitate, et Laude Vitae Solitariae [“Golden Epistle of Contempt for the World and Its Vanities, and Praise of the Solitary Life.”] ff.1-56, 58-64, (9). Mispaginated but complete. Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed. 12mo. Not in Adams.

Cologne: Bertram Buchholtz 1590

Est: $600 - $900
Rare. Neither work recorded in WorldCat. According to Alfonso Cassuto's pencilled notes on the flyleaf, the Author was a New Christian. His brother was Lopo Serraõ, a Jewish doctor, who served as personal physician to the Portuguese King Dom Sebastiaõ.