Armas contra la fortuna, fabula temida de los hombres. Maximas politicas, y morales sobre Boethio de Consolatione Philosophica: idea de toda rectiud, y prudencia. Repartido en metro, y prosa: sirviendo de Norte Boetlhio, à quien traducido se aplican varitas digresions.

Valladollid, Por Antonio Rodriguez Figueroa, Impressor de la Real Universidad, 1698.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, mid-eighteenth-century limp vellum (remains of ties), horizontal manuscript title and decoration on spine, endleaves using "papel sellado" of 20 [? illegible] dated 1747. Title page with quadruple typographical border. Woodcut initials. Woodcut headpiece and tailpiece. Faint dampstains to title page. Some light browning. Overall in very good condition. Old (contemporary?) inscriptions on title page scored. Old manuscript annotation on p. 3. (10 ll.), 583, (1) pp., (6 ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this critical translation and interpretation, with much weighty commentary, mostly in prose, but including some verse, of the first book of Boethius's De consolatione philosophica. The book is dedicated to D. Juan de Dios Silva Mendoza Haro Guzman Roxas Sandoval de la Vega y Luna, Duque and Marques del Zenate, etc. The author provides six preliminary pages of dedication. *** Alcocer 1030. Palau 222220. Not located in HSA. Not located in Salvá or Heredia. Not located in Gallardo. The online CCPBE locates eight copies in seven other Spanish libraries. Jisc locates a single copy, in the British Library. Not located in Hollis. Not located in Orbis. Not located in Melvyl.