GRACIAN, Lorenço, pseudonym of Baltasar GRACIÁN Y MORALES (1601-1658). Arte de ingenio, tratado de la agudeza. Madrid: Juan Sanchez, a costa de Roberto Lorenço, 1642. 8° (143 x 90mm). (Title with large repair at lower corner and several long closed tears, one through imprint, A1, C1, C4-7, and K1 with heavy repairs and minor loss of letters, several supplied in ink, other mends elsewhere, residual browning and soiling.) Blue morocco gilt by Brugalla, 1941. Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941, then rebound. FIRST EDITION of this important work on literary aesthetics. Palau VI, 106893; this first edition not in Goldsmith or Salvá who only possessed the fourth edition (Antwerp, 1702).

GRACIAN, Lorenço, pseudonym of Baltasar GRACIÁN Y MORALES (1601-1658). Arte de ingenio, tratado de la agudeza. Madrid: Juan Sanchez, a costa de Roberto Lorenço, 1642. 8° (143 x 90mm). (Title with large repair at lower corner and several long closed tears, one through imprint, A1, C1, C4-7, and K1 with heavy repairs and minor loss of letters, several supplied in ink, other mends elsewhere, residual browning and soiling.) Blue morocco gilt by Brugalla, 1941. Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941, then rebound. FIRST EDITION of this important work on literary aesthetics. Palau VI, 106893; this first edition not in Goldsmith or Salvá who only possessed the fourth edition (Antwerp, 1702).

GRACIÁN, L., pseudonym. El Heroe - El Politico D. Fernando El Catholico - Oraculo manual y arte de prudencia. Amsterdam: Juan Blaeu, 1659. 3 works in one volume, 12° (125 x 65mm). (1st work with marginal repairs to title and closed tear through 7 lines on A7, F4 of 3rd work repaired at bottom margin, some headlines shaved.) Blue morocco gilt by Brugalla, 1948 (tightly sewn). Provenance: bought from Antonio Palau, 1925. Salvá II, 2075 and 2076 (1st and 2nd work); Palau VI, 106858; 106875; 106903 (giving date as 1660). (2)