Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Relación de hombre: La Sybila de Oriente y gran reyna de Saba - 1787-1791

Extraordinary and very rare specimen of this poetic pamphlet printed in Córdoba towards the end of the 18th century. Only two copies are known in the CCPB (one of them at the BNE).

The text contains a fragment from the theatrical comedy of the same title, La Sybila del Oriente, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, probably written between 1634 and 1636. It uses the visit of the Queen of Sheba to Jerusalem during the construction of Solomon's temple to draw an allegory of the wood of the Cross and the Trinity.

Calderón de la Barca is one of the most distinguished writers of the Spanish Golden Age, the pinnacle of Spanish theater alongside Lope de Vega, of whom he is a successor.

The specimen offered, in addition to its importance and rarity, stands out for its excellent preservation and the beautiful modern protective binding, in hardcover covered with watermarked paper and with a reproduction of the first page overlaid on the front cover.

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Calderón de la Barca, Pedro (1600-1681)

Relation of a man: The Sybil of the East, and great queen of Sheba / by don Pedro Calderón.— In Córdoba: at the printing house of don Josef de Gálvez y Aranda, [between 1787-1791]. — [4] pages; 4.º.

Collation: [ ]2 (reviewed and complete).

Woodcut frieze on the first page.

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20th-21st century hardcover binding covered with a beautiful yellowish paper, handcrafted and painted with water in multiple colors, creating a pattern reminiscent of peacock tails. Reproduction of the first page superimposed on the previous plane.

Copy in an almost pristine condition, both the binding and the paper.

Exlibris and blue ink stamps by Francisco Mendoza Díaz-Maroto, distinguished Spanish bibliophile, author of several publications related to bibliophilia and, especially, to the literature of cordel in Spain.