Ciruelo, Pedro.

Expositio libri missalis peregregia: nuper edita ex officina sapientissimi viri tam humanarum [quan] sacrarum litterarum professoris/diviniqs verbipre dicatoris gelatissi mi Petri Cirueli Darocensis in complutensi achademia. Addita sunt [et] tria eiusdem autoris opuscula. De arte predicandi. De arte memoradi Et de correctione kalendarii.

Printed in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Miguel de Eguía. 1528. First edition. Leather over boards. Hardcover full leather over boards. Folio. Foliated: CLXXXI (ie CLXXX), [2] fp. Illustrated with woodcut b/w initials/vignettes/borders, a full-page b/w woodcut of the author's coat of arms, and a rubricated illustrated title page (black/red). Latin text. Gothic blackletter in two columns with margin notes. Re-cased with replaced boards, spine, and endpapers. Five compartment spine with four ribs. Gilt short title and author stamped in compartment two. Repeating gilt border, and smaller blind stamped border on both boards. Text block edges and endpapers marbled. Two bookplates on front pastedown: "Ex Libris Anna Murphy" and " Ex Museo del Montino." Two cursive ink inscriptions on the title page: "Dela libreria. 125" (referring possibly to the complutensi achademia) and "Deste Comu Des. gabriel de segovia." Remnants of a wax(?) seal in the lower right corner of the title page. Graphite inscription on the back flyleaf reads: "Collation Perfect C Wooslie 13/12/77" (which indeed it is). Some additional minor marginalia. Text block has some minor dampstain to the edges (appears to have happened when they trimmed and marbled it, or  it was why it was done). Pages are bight and clean with only very light foxing. Binding strong and square. The boards and spine and very worn along the edges and hinges, marked, and rubbed (with some loss of gilt). Crown chipped. Condition is as described though if it were not for the rough state of the boards/spine, it would be very good; the text block is in amazingly good condition for its age. As described. Item #67643

Sign.: ab ⁶ , cz ⁸ , [et] ⁸ , [cum] ⁸ , AI ⁸ , K ⁶ , L ⁸ ..

Price: $3,000.00