Hispanic rare books of the Golden Age (1470-1699) in the Newberry Library of Chicago and in selected North American libraries

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Hispanic rare books of the Golden Age (1470-1699) in the Newberry Library of Chicago and in selected North American libraries

Joseph L. Laurenti

(American university studies, Series II, Romance languages and literature, vol. 111)

P. Lang, c1989

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Bibliography: p. [xiii]-xxii

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Hispanic Rare Books of the Golden Age (1470-1699) collection is one of America's most outstanding collections of rare Hispanic books. It consists of approximately 1019 printed books, the property of the Newberry Library of Chicago. Among these printed books covering the entire period of the Spanish Golden Age, there can be found rarities considered museum pieces by scholars. Aleman, Amadis de Guala, las Casas, Cervantes, Granada, Guevara, Hurtado de Mendoza, Lazarillo de Tormes, Montemayor, Mejia, Nebrija, Quevedo, Rojas, Rivadeneyra, Valdes and Luis Vives, among hundreds of others, are represented in extremely rare editions as well as some translations into English, Dutch, French, Italian, and German.

Table of Contents

Contents: A detailed description of each rare Hispanic book in the Newberry Library of Chicago printed between 1470-1699.

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