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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. ADD THIS INFO WHEN RECAT THIS: -----Original Message-----. 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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