Loubayssin de Lamarca, Francisco. HISTORIA TRAGICOMICA DE DON HENRIQUE DE CASTRO. Paris: Adrian Tiffeno, 1617 (imprint and date from colophon page at end.) 879, [1] pp. *lacking prelims including title and portrait, and errata/blanks at end (or, all leaves after the colophon page), and one leaf of text (pp. 77/78.) Engraved title taken from another work and with title for this work cut and laid on (title leaf laid down and with other defects.) Early limp vellum with old paper to portion of front cover, front cover mostly pulled, vellum toned, contents generally clean with a few instances of light marginal worming to one section, another section with old and faded corner stains. ************************* FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST NOVEL SET IN SPANISH AMERICA. An imperfect copy of a very scarce title. Though one bibliographer entered an edition of 1612, no such edition has been found to actually exist and it is believed the bibliographer misread the date; therefore, all other bibliographers consider this to be the first edition. Examples in any condition are extremely rare. RBH records only two previous auction appearances, and OCLC locates only 3 copies (of which at least one is defective.) Palau 142662