TORQUEMADA (Antonio de). HEXAMERON, ou Six Journées, contena - Lot 118

TORQUEMADA (Antonio de). HEXAMERON, ou Six Journées, contenant plusieurs doctes discours sur aucuns points difficiles en plusieurs sciences avec maintes histoires notables & non encore ouyes. Rouen, Romain de Beauvais, 1610. One volume in-12 (4 ff, 561 pp, 20 ff table), full cherry morocco, ribbed spine decorated with gilt caissons, framing on the boards, fillet on the edges, gilt edges (Binding signed Muller). A fine copy. Fourth edition of "la mise en français" by Gabriel Chappuys, Tourangeau. Rare translation of the Spanish text Jardin de flores curiosas. This is a potpourri of philosophical, theological, geographical and other curiosities (ghosts, visions, spirits). In Chapter VI of Part I, when sorting through Don Quixote's library, the priest declares: "fue el mesmo que compuso à Jardin de Flores, y en verdad que no sepa determinar qual de los dos libros es mas verdadero, o por decir, menor menos mentiroso". Palau, 334920; Brunet V, 886. Salva did not have this translation. Cf Biblio de Jean Marc Dechaud. Ex-libris of Rolando A. Laguarda Trias. Old signature at the end of the table: Paniquiny (?).