A FAMOUS CONTEMPORARY OF CERVANTES! - Lot 78

A FAMOUS CONTEMPORARY OF CERVANTES! CAMOENS (Luis de). RIMAS, Primeira parte... Lisboa, Vicente Alvarez, 1614. One small volume in-4 (8 ff, 202 leaves, 6 pp), full green morocco, Jansenist ribbed spine, gilt bookplates on boards, gilt edges (Binding signed Brugalla, dated 1945). A fine pale copy, a little over-washed; title leaf, first dedication leaf and prologue leaf repaired, with a few letters missing. Particularly rare fifth edition of this first part of the poems (sonnets, chansons, odes, tercets, eglogues, rondeaux) by the famous author of the Lusiades. Brunet, I, 1515, also mentions a fifth edition by Craesbeek, who would have published the second part in 1616. Braga, bibliog. camoniana 42-43. Super-libris of Isidoro Fernandez; and ex-libris of Antonio Lopez, 1944.