COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Loubayssin de Lamarca, Francisco.
Author (contributor):
French Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Title:
Historia tragicomica de Don Henrique de Castro : encuyos estraños sucessos se veen, los varios y prodigiosos efectos, del amor, y de la guerra. ... /
Publisher:
Vendense en la galeria de los prisoneros del palacio en la tienda de la viuda de Matias Guillemot
Begin Publication Date:
1617
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991015463839706966
Permanent Call Number:
B617 .L886h
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 09-153
Subjects:
Magalhães, Fernão de,--1480-1521.
Subjects:
Nobility--Chile--Fiction.
Subjects:
Chile--History--To 1565--Fiction.
Subjects:
Chile--History--To 1810--Fiction.
Subjects:
America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.
Subjects:
America--Discovery and exploration--Portuguese.
Subjects:
Imprint 1617.
General Note:
Colophon on p. [1], 3rd count, reads: Acabado de imprimir en Paris, en la emprenta de Adrian Tiffeno, a costa de la viuda de Guillemot, a 19. de enero de 1617.; Alden gives first printing as Paris, 1612 but Palau suggests the 1612 edition is a ghost.; Knightly romance between Don Henrique and Princess Elisauira, in 9 books, set in Chile; historical events mentioned includes Magellan's circumnavigation and a description of the battle of Tucapel in 1559; also discussed tales of Spanish and Portuguese exploration in the New World.; Signatures: ã⁸ (ã1 verso, ã8 recto blank) A-3I⁸ (E3 missigned C3); Errors in paging: Pages 166, 186, 305, 425, 427, 456, 536, 597, 763, and 875 are misnumbered 169, 189, 205, 245, 421, 446, 436, 579, 764, and 873.; Title page is fully engraved within ornamental border; engraved portrait of the author bound to face p. 1, 2nd count, is considered to be p. [16], 1st count; head and tail pieces; initials.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: engraved title page slightly trimmed at foot and foredge, not affecting text; some leaves closely cropped at head, affecting running titles and page numbers; a duplicate gathering 2D, p. 417-432, has been bound between p. 416 and 417, 2nd count.; John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full speckled and sprinkled calf; rebacked.; John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.