Vellum Book - Demonstracion Critico-Apolgetica de el Theatro Critico Universal Antique

Vellum Book - Demonstracion Critico-Apolgetica de el Theatro Critico Universal AntiqueVellum Book Demonstracion Critico Apolgetica de el Theatro Critico Universal Wear to Title Page and Cover By Benito Jeronimo Feijoo Volume I Fourth Printing Spanish Madrid MDCCLVII 1757; by Domingo Fernandez de Arrojo Benito Jernonimo Feijoo (1676 1764) was a Benedictine monk and one of Spain's most important early Enlightenment thinkers. His Teatro Critico Universal is a collection of essays challenging popular supersitions, pseudoscience, and

” referencing the prominent Amsterdam publisher Nicolaes Visscher

Antique condition with expected age-related crazing

The front retains its original working lock and decorative key escutcheon

Vellum Book - Demonstracion Critico-Apolgetica de el Theatro Critico Universal

with a fully lined tortoiseshell interior framed by braided trim

expected wear

likely intended for attaching devotional objects such as keys

offering a luxurious contrast to the warm gilt bronze

Materials:

shifting between soft gold

Similar claw-form mounts were widely used during the late 19th-century revival styles

around her are grotesque or confused figures - symbolizing fanaticism and deceit