MARIANA, JOANNIS (JUAN de MARIANA) - THE HISTORY OF SPAIN.

Hispani E Societate Iesu Historiae De Rebus Hispaniae libri XXX. Cum Indive copioso, & explicatione vocum obscuriorum. (2 parts).

Mogvntiae (Mainz), Andreas Wechsel, 1605. 4to. Contemp. full vellum, raised bands, blindstamped covers. Printers wood-cut device on titlepage. (16),619;638,(36) pp. A bit of browning to the first few leaves. A few scattered brownspots. Printed in double columns.

This is the first edition containing all 30 books. The first 20 books were published in Spanish in 1601. Marianas's importent history of Spain deals with the country from the first settlements to the death of King Ferdinand, who united the Crowns of Castile and Aragon.

"Among his (Maraina's) literary labours the most important is undoubtedly his great work on the history of Spain, which is still remembered today. There was published as late as 1854, in Madrid, an improved and richly illustrated edition continued up to that year. The work first appeared as "Historiæ de rebus Hispaniæ libri XX. Toleti, typis P. Roderici, 1592". A later edition of the compiler himself, carried on still further is "De rebus Hispaniæ libri XXX", published at Mainz in 160 (the item offered). This edition bears the imprimatur of the order for the thirty books, given by Stephan Hojeda, visitor from Dec., 1598, and of the provincial from 1604. The author had in the mean time converted a Latin edition into Spanish and this appeared complete, containing the thirty books of the Latin edition, at Toledo in 1601. This went through a number of editions during the lifetime of the author and through others after his death" (The Catholic Encyclopedia)..

Order-nr.: 48560