Garcia de Medrano, La regla de la cavalleria de Santiago del Espada, Madrid, 1627, calf binding

García de Medrano

La regla y establecimiento de la cavalleria de Santiago del Espada, con la historia del origen y principio della. (Madrid: the widow of Luis Sánchez for Martín de Gil, 1627)

folio (283 x 191mm.), title-page with large armorial woodcut border, second leaf with a red woodcut sword within a woodcut cartouche, full-page woodcut on [*]4, woodcut initials and headpieces, with final blank leaf, eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt in compartments with later red morocco lettering-piece, red edges, title-page almost detached, small stains on A6, some printed marginalia shaved, binding slightly rubbed and scraped

LITERATURE:

Palau 99367; USTC 5021672

PROVENANCE:

D. Petrus de Gamarra, alumnus of San Bartolomé, inscription at foot of title-page; bookplate with monogram AHR (?) on verso of title-page; Duque de Tamames (José Messía y Gayoso de los Cobos, 1853-1917, a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece), typed presentation letter loosely inserted from Juan Comba dated 19 March 1914