[IBARRA PRINTING]. TERREROS Y PANDO, Esteban de (1707-1782). Paleografias Espaola. Que contiene todos los modos conocidos... Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 1758. Small quarto. [4], 160 pp. Eighteen engraved plates. Includes a facsimile of a letter from Isabel I of Castile to Gomez Manrique (1412-1490) while he was Corregidor of Toledo. The plates show Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek text in a variety of calligraphic styles. Contemporary limp vellum with title in manuscript on spine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY-PRINTED BOOK BY IBARRA.
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Front board with some chipping (animal damage?) at upper margin, some soiling, wear to binding, old manuscript paper label on spine, front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting, most leaves with soiling at upper corner, ink initials on ffep. Very good.
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Terreros y Pando (1707-1782). was a Spanish Jesuit who taught rhetoric and mathematics. Amongst his other works is a four-volume dictionary of the Castillian tongue, also published by Ibarra. The present work tracks Catholic, Muslim, and Jewish influence on language in Spain, as well as the influences of North African populations, the Roman Empire, and classical Greek society. It includes analyses of the way Castilian Spanish, Galician, Catalan, and other languages and dialects in Spain influenced each other and developed in tandem. Library bookplate of D. Lucas Alaman on fp. Lasalla 55. Palau 330662.