Dos Prologos: A un Tratado de Montería, a una Historia de la Filosofía.
Madrid: Revista de Occidente, (c1944). 8vo. 207 pp. Black & white frontispiece portrait. As issued in printed wrappers, moderately soiled and worn at the spine; Mexico City bookseller's ticket at rear. Very good. Item #46160
First edition. Titled "Un Tratadi de Montería," this long essay on hunting by the philosopher and critic made herein its second appearance in print and its first independent of the work for which it was written as prologue, i.e., Veinte Años de Caza Mayor (Twenty Years a Big-Game Hunter, Madrid, 1943), by Ortega y Gasset's friend Edward, Count Yebes. Subsequently, the essay was issued in several Spanish reprints and in German, Dutch, and Japanese editions before Howard B. Westcott translated and edited the first English version (Meditations on Hunting, 1972), in which he omitted most references to the Yebes account, itself quite a scarce work on hunting in Spain (the first edition is not in OCLC and the NUC records but two copies). Dos Prologos is noteworthy also for being published by Ortega y Gasset himself with the imprint of Revista de Occidente, the intellectually important Spanish periodical he edited for years (the accompanying prologue he wrote for an edition of E. Bréhier's history of philosophy).
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