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[Literary miscellany] Spanish-language literary miscellany [Spain] [c.1837].

Spanish manuscript literary miscellany including (4 pages) a periodization of human life, (3 pages) Arab proverbs, and (16) moral maxims of commerce. There is also (74 pages) a Napoleonic novella, (21 pages) a copy of poetry written to the Spanish queen in 1832 by the statesman Joaquin Francisco Pacheco (1808-1865), (12 pages) a note on the political projects of Peter the Great, and (12 pages) a Spanish translation of a report from the Journal des Pyrénées of 1837. With the exceptions of the report from the French newspaper (which is on a speech on the subject of atheism), and the poetry, the material is unascribed. From the library of the writer Enrique del Castillo y Alba (d.1879), whose own printed output included literary miscellanies.

Details

Manuscript, one volume, 15 cms. x 10.7 cms., 152 pages of writing, further blanks. Very good, bound in quarter-sheep and marbled boards, gilt decoration to spine (binding rubbed and worn, some cracking to spine, still good). Bookplate of the writer Enrique del Castillo y Alba (d.1879), manuscript contents list in a different, later hand (his?).