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Lot 254
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,260
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Lot Description
[OFFICIUM]. Oficio de la Semana Santa. [Madrid?:] En la Imprenta del Norte, 1815.
10 volumes in 6, 4to (240 x 165 mm). Text in Latin and Spanish in large type. Contemporary Spanish mottled calf, sides with wide gilt roll tool border, smooth spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges yellow and sprinkled. Provenance: Juan Francisco Piferrer, Barcelona (booklabel); José Maria Cardoso y Hermanos (bookplate laid in to one volume).
Text for the celebration of the Holy Week masses, including Palm Sunday, in a fine contemporary Spanish binding. RARE: OCLC records only one complete set (in the National Library of Spain) and one partial set (in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden). Palau 199404 (recording the set, but noting that he hasn't seen one complete).
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