Escobar Del Corro, Juan. Tractatus Bipartitus de Puritate et Nobilitate Probanda.

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Escobar Del Corro, Juan. Tractatus Bipartitus de Puritate et Nobilitate Probanda.

Allegorical engraving on title. pp. (12), 448, (72). Final leaves marginally wormed, text unaffected. Contemporary elegantly blind-tooled calf, spine in compartments, gilt extra. Folio.

Leiden: Laurentii Arnaud, Petri Borde, Joannis & Petri Arnaud 1678

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $350

This work promulgated the notion that since the so-called New Christians were in fact descended from Jews, their character was tainted as a matter of heredity.