LOPEZ DE CORELLA, Alonso (1513-1584). Trezientas preguntas de cosas naturales. Valladolid: Francisco Fernandez de Cordova, 1546. 8° (185 x 140mm). Black Letter. Title printed in red and black with an engraved flourish and engraved device, the latter repeated in the colophon. (Title repaired in the margin with a small area of the flourish supplied, the same leaf with statement of privilege cancelled in red ink, occasional light soiling.) Dark blue crushed morocco by Brugalla, 1946, gilt supralibros to sides, gilt spine lettering , turn-ins and edges. Provenance deleted inscriptions -- purchased from Antonio López, 1944.

LOPEZ DE CORELLA, Alonso (1513-1584). Trezientas preguntas de cosas naturales. Valladolid: Francisco Fernandez de Cordova, 1546. 8° (185 x 140mm). Black Letter. Title printed in red and black with an engraved flourish and engraved device, the latter repeated in the colophon. (Title repaired in the margin with a small area of the flourish supplied, the same leaf with statement of privilege cancelled in red ink, occasional light soiling.) Dark blue crushed morocco by Brugalla, 1946, gilt supralibros to sides, gilt spine lettering , turn-ins and edges. Provenance deleted inscriptions -- purchased from Antonio López, 1944.

First edition thus -- a reworking of the author's Secretos de filosophia y medicina published in 1539. A collection of medical, astrological and philosophical enquires presented in a dialectical manner. Not in Garrison & Morton, NLM or Wellcome. Salvá II, 2088; Palau VII, 141007.