VALASCO, ALVARO

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

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Place

Lisbon, Antonius Alvarez, 1593

Publication

Lisbon, Georg Rodriguez, 1601

Description

Consultationum, ac Rerum Judicatarum in Regno Lusitaniae. [Legal decisions of Kingdom of Portugal]. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one. ff. (4), 148 (lacking 10-leaf index) and ff. (6),1-56, 67-239 (folio no. "194" torn away), (1 blank), (28) * With: Another Copy of Vol. I that includes the 10-leaf Index. ff. (4), 148, (10)

summary

Alvaro Valasco was Supreme Curia of the Portuguese Senate and Professor of Law at the University of Coimbra. His dates are usually given as 1524-1593, however according to the frontispiece portrait he was 67 at the time of his death. WorldCat records no copy of the 1593 edition, only of a later edition (Venice, 1597)

Waterstains, wormed, text slightly affected. Later calf, rubbed. 4to

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