Navarro y Murillo, Manuel

Memoria sobre los absurdos, males, peligros y otros escesos de las corridas de toros, según la filosofia, el movimiento social ...

Cadiz: José Maria Gálvez, 1876. 8vo, pp. 57, [1]; original blue printed front wrapper bound in; later full Spanish flame goat, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2; generally fine. Bullfighting bookplate of James J. Nieto. Eight in OCLC, only Columbia and UCLA in the US. Carmena y Millan, Bibliografía de la Tauromáquia, 189: "It is an extended diatribe against bullfighting and its fans ... The public has not paid much attention to the reasoning put forth in this work, since every day it concurs with greater eagerness and enthusiasm to witness the bullfights" [google translate]. Item #55499

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