Sotheby's New York: 1995. Softcover. Very good condition. Auction Catalogue. Sale #6675 "IDES". Includes numerous color photos. Sotheby's, New York: 1995 paperback
544 nos. 119pp. Several plates. Wrs.A collection of which the importance and value was widely known. Jean Peeters-Fontainas' collection spans the years 1529-1781. Many of the books are as is to be expected of a religious and didactic nature but the scope of the collection is very much wider including books on Spanish America by Cieza de Leon Ercilla y Zuniga Fernandez de Piedrahita Lopez de Gomara and Antonio de Solis dictionaries by Calepius Garnier Junius Nenrija Oudin and Sobrino; emblem books by Borja Bouttats and Vaenius; books on military subjects by Agusto Davilo Orijon Escalante Escalante Fernandez de Medrano Mendoza Salazar and Santansy y Tapia; topographical and geographical works by Apianus Blaeu Boemas Gonzalez de Mendoza and Lopez de Castaneda; publisher's catalogues and catalogues of book on the index - Index librorum prohibitorum. Classical Spanish literature is extensively presented by works of Cervantes Escobar Lazarillo de Tormes Lopez de Ubeda Quevedo Villegas and Vega Carpio the Cancionero General and Cancionero de Romances and a large collection of editions of the Celestina. . unknown