Bidspirit auction | MARTINEZ del VILLAR, Doctor Joseph

MARTINEZ del VILLAR, Doctor Joseph - Accurata dissertatio methodo non vulgari distributa universam complectens pupillaris substitutionis nateriam. Eam, pro captu animi sui, delineabat Oscae (Huesca) Excudebat Josephus Laurentius de Larumbe Universitatis Typographus 1685 4to, (XXXII), 342, (30) pp. Titlepage within ornamental border; capitals with woodcut initials; at the end a woodcut sailing-ship with shooting canon. Some pages browned; a few corners missing a small piece of paper (no loss of text); vellum cover wrinkled; hinges damaged; otherwise a good copy. Contemporary overlapping full vellum, author's name on spine, new end-lvs Very rare dissertation by Joseph Martinez del Villar; he was bishop of Barbastro in Huesca in Aragón, in the north of Spain. It handles about the education of orphan pupils to the best of their abilities