Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Boccaccio, Amorosa visione, Venice, 1549, contemporary Parisian vellum gilt

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. Amorosa visione di m. Gio Bocc. novamente ridotta in luce, nella quale si contengono cinque triomphi. Triompho di sapientia, di gloria, di ricchezza, di amore, e di fortuna. Venice: Gabriele Giolito De Ferrari, 1549


A HANDSOME COPY OF BOCCACCIO'S ALLEGORICAL POEM IN A CONTEMPORARY PARISIAN VELLUM BINDING. The poem comprises fifty cantos in tercets in a Dantesque form and structure and was originally composed between 1342 and 1343.

8vo (154 x 98 mm). Italic type, 30 line. collation: A-I8 K7: 79 (only, of 80 leaves, lacking the final blank). Title-page with woodcut device, woodcut device on verso of final leaf, woodcut initials throughout. (Some spotting.)


binding: Parisian vellum c.1560 (160 x 100 mm) over flexible pasteboards, gilt quatrefoil at outer angles, gilt medallion on sides, spine lettered in gilt, traces of fore-edge ties, edges gilt. (Small tear at head of spine.)


provenance: Christie's London, 6 June 2001, lot 111 (part lot). acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: USTC 814830; Edit16 CNCE 6317

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