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La Sabiduria y la Locura. En el Púlpito de las Monjas

4to. pp. (4), xix, 1-2, 2-80. Bound in contemporary or early marbled calf with labels of red morocco gilt to spine (one label with title, the other, possibly with ownership-identifier (monogram or heraldic device) defaced). Woodcut decoration and initials. A crossed-out signature on title page. Possibly first edition (CCPB uniquely has a record for a 1752 edition (Madrid Real Academia de Historia) which may be the result of a cataloguer misreading MDCCLVII for MDCCLII). The book is a Spanish-language collection of sermons for nuns on the occasion of their taking the veil. The first two sermons are noted as translated from French originals. Next are reprints (with title page) of Antonio de Carriedo, O.S.B., ‘La Dama de San Benito’ (Madrid 1746) and José Antonio Lopez de Cotilla, S.J., ‘La esposa del milagro’ (Madrid 1744). The collection is prefaced by an 18-page foreword, and each of the four sermons is also introduced by an ‘analysis’. The work was issued in 12mo. and 4to. editions in the same year. Panel (1699-1777), originally of the Jura region, spent much of his career in Spain, becoming in 1738 a tutor to the royal children and keeper of the king’s medal collection. At the ti

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