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TORRE FARFAN, FERNANDO. 1608-1677. Fiestas de la S. Iglesia Metropolitans .... Seville: Nicolas Rodriguez, 1671-72.

TORRE FARFAN, FERNANDO. 1608-1677. Fiestas de la S. Iglesia Metropolitans .... Seville: Nicolas Rodriguez, 1671-72. 2 volumes. 4to (300 x 209 mm) Extra engraved title page, engraved portraits of Ferdinand III and Charles II, and 9 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked. Wear and chipping to binding, worming to first and last few leaves, some dampstaining, browning, margins slightly trimmed. WITH: Portfolio atlas of 9 folio plates, various sizes, matted. Modern quarter morocco clamshell box to house 4to and folio plates. FIRST EDITION. Spanish festival book produced for the canonization of King Ferdinand III by Pope Clement III, documenting the festivities held in the Cathedral of Seville in 1671. See E. Garvey 'Francisco Herrera the younger: A drawing for a Spanish festival book' in Harvard Library Bulletin, 1978, p 28 (included with lot); Hofer 86; Palau 335597; Praz, p 94; Vinet 815. For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website