SERRANO (SERRAÕ), GASPAR.

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

printer

Bertram Buchholtz

Place

Cologne

Publication

1590

Description

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.

references

Not in Adams.

summary

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.

Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed. 12mo.

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