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Vida de la V. Sierva de Dios Sor Úrsula de San Basilio Cordoba, En la oficina de Diego, y Juan Rodriguez, 1763. FIRST EDITION. 4to; pp. (xxviii), one leaf with engraved portrait of the nun by Juan Diaz on recto, 674, (vi). Roman letter, sporadic Italic. Attractive large head- and tail-pieces, decorated woodcut initials. Rebound in modern red velvet over wooden boards, as it was originally, preserving its silver corner- and centre-pieces with the Sacred Heart of Jesus etched on, clasps and catches, edges gilt and gauffered. Text clean and crisp. An extremely fresh and lovely copy. First and only edition of this biography of Ursula of Saint Basil (1733-1761). Ursula was a nun in the Cistercian Monastery of the Immaculate Conception born in Pozoblanco, who died at the age of twenty-eight. The author of the book was Girolamo de Vilches, a monk of the monastery of San Basil in Cordoba, who refers to her devotion as a multitude of proofs of the most virtuous virtue and giving an account of her death show the great sentiment that caused the loss of a religious so exemplary and so holy in Cordoba. From the prestigious library of Camille Aboussouan, Lebanese ambassador to UNESCO. The quality of this large collection was various, some good, others less so, others again rather spoiled by the owner s conspicuous device stamped on bindings and title pages… The top price was £26,000, paid for a set of drawings of the Levant, made c. 1839 for the Prince de Joinville, serving in the escadre de l est of the French navy (from a saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1993, p.401). Palau 366045. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1528122769159
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