Poliziano, Stanze per la giostra, Venice, Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1541, nineteenth-century English large grain red morocco

Poliziano, Angelo Ambrogini, called. Stanze di messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Piero de Medici. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1541

8vo (158 x 95 mm). Italic and Roman type, 24 lines plus headline. collation: A-D⁸: 32 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and final verso, red silk ribbon. (Small repair to upper margin of A2, dampstaining to lower margin with some bleeding from ribbon.)

binding: Nineteenth-century English pebble-grained red morocco (163 x 102 mm), bound by Wheeler, covers with double gilt fillets forming a central rectangle extending to outer frame, small gilt leaf at each corner, flat spine gilt-lettered, edges gilt, marbled endleaves. (Spine rubbed.)

provenance: Conte Giovanni Marchetti (1817-1876), ex libris — Giovanni Marchetti, La parte migliore de' miei libri (Turin 1875), p. 184, no. 211; his sale, Sotheby's London, 27 November-1 December 1876, lot 1460 — Joseph Baer & Co., Frankfurt am Main, purchased in previous in sale (£4) — Graf Ludwig von der Pahlen, ex libris — Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Auktion 107, Berlin, 21 April 2016, lot 1096. acquisition: Purchased at Bassenge via Halwas. references: UCLA 302; Renouard 123/9; Edit16 56158; USTC 850200