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1806. BOOK: (HUMANITIES). ARFE AND VILLAFAÑE,...

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1806. BOOK: (HUMANITIES). ARFE AND VILLAFAÑE, JUAN DE: VARIA COMENSURACIÓN DE... born in Leon, and gold and silver sculptor. New corrected, enlarged and improved edition with fine prints, by Don Josef Assensio y Torres, and company. Madrid: Imp. Real, 1806. 2 volumes in 1 vol. in folio menor. 4 h. + 126 p. + 58 plates + 1 h. + 166 p. + 45 plates. paging error (the p. 17-20 placed after p. 24). Beautifully illustrated with 103 intaglio out of text, some of them finely illuminated by hand. Old gallery in the outer margin of some p. (mainly in the first ones) well restored, does not affect text. Each volume contains 4 books: Geometry, Astronomy, Architecture, Anatomy, Quadruped Animals, Birds, Silversmithing and Heraldry. Enc. in Spanish paste of epoch, grazed and restored, with a small gallery in the top of the previous plane, painted cuts, ridge with wheels, tejuelo. Palau 16060. CCPB 76111-7.