8vo. Volume I: viii, 407 pp., 1 folding table, [2 index, 1 errata] / Volume II: 412 pp., [1 index, 1 errata] / Volume III: 525 pp., / Volume IV: 430 pp., half-titles, contemporary half-calf, slightly rubbed round edges, title gilt on decorated spine, spotting throughout, previous owner’s bookplate verso front covers, Imprenta Y Libreria de Sanz, Granada, first edition, 1843-1846.

Synopsis

Lafuente Y Alcantara, was one of Gayangos’ disciples. a member of the Academy of History as well as director of the library of San Isidoro. He spent part of his life writing on Arabic topics.
‘ This history enjoys the justified merit accorded to it,being reputed to be the best which we have to date of the Kingdom of Granada’. Munoz p. 129.
Bibliographic reference: Palau 129 806.