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Auction 50 · Lot 281
Coro de las Musas ["Choir of the Muses": collected poetry]
- Estimate
- $4,000–$6,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
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author
BARRIOS, MIGUEL (DANIEL LEVI) DE.
printer
Baltazar Vivien
Place
Brussels
Publication
1672
Description
FIRST EDITION. Allegorical engraving on p. 639
references
Kayserling, pp.17-18
summary
The Coro is the second collection of De Barrios's poetry. It is divided into nine parts, each named after one of the muses: Urania (Celestial), Terpsichore (Geography), Clio (Panegyric), Erato (Love), Euterpe (Pastoral), Polyhymnia (Lyric), Thalia (Comic), Melpomene (Funeral) and Caliope (Moral). Barrios appended to this work Musica de Apolo, several poems extracted from his first work Flor de Apollo.
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From: Tobias Abeloff
To: Daniel E. Kestenbaum
Sent: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 4:20 pm.
Subject: Barrios.
Danny,.
The copy of Coro de las Musas with the JPF bookplate is from the.
library of Jean Peeters-Fontainas, who compiled the definitive.
bibliography of Spanish books printed in Belgium (Bibliographie des.
Impressions Espagnoles des Pays-Bas Meridionaux, 1965). It was sold.
as lot 39 in the sale of his collection at Sotheby's London on 22 May 1978.
Toby.
pp. (42), 1-48, 25-48, 49-288, 241-288, 289-382, 381-382, 383-392, (2), 394, (3), 395-515, (1), 515-648. Lacking frontispiece, scattered underscorng and marginalia. Later blind-tooled vellum, gilt extra, with ties. 12mo
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