Sevilla, Juan Varela de Salamanca, 1516.

Folio menor (315 x 223 mm. ) XVIIth century vellum (endpapers renewed).

6 ll. inc. title page with large woodcut coat of arms, 169 ff.

Gothic types.

Third Spanish edition, of great rarity, of Petrarch’s “Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul”, a collection of brief dialogues, written in prose, between allegorical characters: “Joy”, “Reason” and “Pain. ” A self-help and moral book to reinforce men against the strokes of fortune, both good and adverse.

It is the second edition printed in Seville, rarer than the first, according to Escudero.

“Esta edición, que es la segunda de Sevilla, está hecha a plana y renglón sobre la primera de 1513, sin más diferencia que el nombre del impresor… Esta edición es aún más rara que la primera. ” – Escudero.

The fine cut of the arms of Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, el Gran Capitán, to whom the translation is dedicated, is printed within a woodcut border of birds, foliage and emblematic figures.

“Never seen in the trade. ” – Palau.

Light staining throughout.

Palau 224247; Martin Abad, “Postincunables ibéricos”, 1229; Salva 3973; Heredia 350; Escudero 190; Norton, “A descriptive catalogue of printing in Spain and Portugal

1501-1520”, 969; Wilkinson, Books published in Spanish or Portuguese or printed on the Iberian Peninsula before 1601, 14768.