Elogio del Rey Don Alonso el Sabio, premiado por la Real Academia Española, en junta que celebró el dia 15 de octubre de 1782.

Madrid, Por Don Joachin Ibarra, Impresor da Câmara de S.M. y de la Real Academia, 1782.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, recent period sheep (scuffed and somewhat warped), spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt-lettered red lettering piece in second compartment from head, gilt bands, text block edges rouged from an earlier binding. Small woodcut vignette on title page. Title page slightly soiled. Overall in very good condition. (1 l.), 76 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST EDITION, and the only separate one, of this life of Alfonso X el Sabio (1221-1284), famous for writing prolific poetry in Galician, for his interest in science and music, and for introducing the first vernacular law code in Spain, the Siete Partidas. This eulogy includes extensive notes (pp. 63-76). It was reprinted in the Colección de las obras de elocuencia ... premiadas por la Real Academia in 1799, by Ibarra's widow, and in a Paris, 1846 edition of the Siete Partidas. It was awarded a prize by the Real Academia Española; the same year the author participated in the siege of Gibralter. This appears to be his earliest published work.Vargas y Ponce (Cádiz, 1760-Madrid, 1821) was an erudite Spanish enlightenment figure, author of historical works and essays, satirical poet, naval officer, mathematician and politician. A member of the Real Academia de Historia, and later of the Real Academia Española, he was a deputy to the Cortes de Cádiz for Madrid in 1813, and was elected again in 1820.*** Ruiz Lasala 659: calling for 76 pp. in all. Palau 352511. Whitehead, BL Eighteenth-Century Spanish STC, V92. Whitehead, "Joaquin Ibarra … Holdings in … British Library" in The British Library Journal, VI, 2 (Autumn 1980), p. 213. See also Fernando Durán López, José Vargas Ponce, 1760-1821: Ensayo de una bibliografía y crítica de sus obras, Cádiz: Servicio Publicaciones UCA, 1997.