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1552. BOOK. (GOTHIC-MILITARY). XENOPHON:. THE WORKS OF ... TRANSLATED FROM GREEK INTO CASTILIAN BY SECRETARY DIEGO GRACIAN, DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS, DEDICATED TO HIS MOST SERENISSIMUS PRINCE PHILIP, OUR LORD. Salamanca: Juan de Junta, 1552. Large 4º. 8 pp. + 222 folios + 2 pp. Title page with a woodcut imperial coat of arms in two colors, with the left margin reinforced. Text in two columns in Gothic typeface, with woodcut capitals. Engraved printer’s mark on the verso of the last leaf. Bound in period parchment, with inscribed spine. First edition of the Castilian translation of Xenophon’s works, which includes, among others: The Office and Duties of a Captain General of Cavalry, and What Is Required of a Good Commander; The Art of Cavalry Warfare, on Horses, and on the Qualities a Good Knight Must Possess for War; On Hunting and the Hunt, the Practice of Which Is Necessary for War. CCPB 13994-7. Ruiz Fidalgo, 375. Palau 376843 quotes Menéndez Pelayo: “Gracián’s Xenophon enjoys well-deserved fame, and is, along with Father Pou’s Herodotus, the finest example of translations of Greek prose writers that our language possesses. His style is clear, simple, pure, and free of all affectation..." .