Sermon funebre de el Excmo. Señor Don Jaime Miguel de Guzman, &c. Marques de la Mina &c, grande de España de primera clase.
Barcelona: Thomas Piferrer, 1767. Portrait frontis, xlvi pp. (plus later blanks bound in). Sm. 8vo. Later full mottled calf, gilt titles, 4 raised bands. First edition. A very good copy, minor wear at spine ends, light foxing and faint dampstain on a few leaves. Palau 102169. Sommervogel III, 1414. De Backer II, 233. Almirante, Bibliografía militar de España: 329. Latassa, Bibliotecas... escritores aragoneses I: p.630. Torres Amat, Memorias... diccionario critico de los escritores Catalanes: p. 286. Item #37288
"Gentil Hombre de Camara con exercicio, Caballero de la Insigne Orden del Toison de Oro, y de la de Sancti Spiritus, &c. Capitan General de los Exercitos de S.M. i de el Principado de Cataluña, i Presidente de su Real Audiencia, &c., que predico El Padre Roque Antonio Gila de la Compañia de Jesus el 29. de Enero de 1767. En la Iglesia de S. Miguel de la Barceloneta, en donde fuè enterrado su Cadaver el mismo dia." Roque Antonio Gila (1721-1796) was a Jesuit who taught humanities, philosophy, theology, and mathematics, and was also noted as a speaker. He was appointed master at the University of Barcelona in 1767. After the expulsion he went to Italy. Jaime de Guzmán y Spinola, II Marquis of la Mina (1690-1767) was a Spanish Army commander and Captain General of Catalonia. Scarce. OCLC shows only one copy and there are four others in Spanish libraries.
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