DEL CIELO, VIOLANTE. Rimas Varias

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 35

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DEL CIELO, VIOLANTE. Rimas Varias

FIRST EDITION pp. 16, 190. Signature on title, dampstained, some marginal worming. Contemporary calf, worn. 8vo Palau 57539

Rouen: Maurry 1646

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $550

This collection of poems by the Dominican nun Violante do Céu (1601-1693) of the Lisboan Monastery De La Rosa, is dedicated to the Portuguese explorer Admiral Vasco de Gama. The publisher of the work was the Portuguese diplomat and author Manuel Fernandes de Villa-Real (1608-1652) who was was burnt to death in Lisbon on December 1st 1652 for the crime of Judaizing. See Ramos-Coelho, Manuel Fernandes Vila Real eo seu processo na Inquisiçaõ de Lisboa (Lisbon, 1894), p.12