Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z

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Vergilius, Eclogae, Florence, Filippo I Giunta, 1504, contemporary limp vellum

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June 25, 08:34 PM GMT

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1,000 - 2,000 USD

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Vergilius Maro, Publius. Eclogae Vergilii, Francisci Pe. Calphurnii, Ioannis Boc. Nemesiani Ioan Bap. Ma. Pomponii Gaurici. Florence: Filippo I Giunta, 14 October 1504


With works by Virgil, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, among others.


8vo (160 x 95 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: π8 a-t8: 160 leaves (t8 blank.) (Title stained with ex libris stamps, intermittent foxing, a few minor stains.)


binding: Contemporary green-tinted limp vellum (165 x 102 mm), slight yapps, three leather bands piercing spine at hinges, and two at head and tail, traces of two leather ties, title in ink on tail edge "EGLOGAE PLVR." (A bit rubbed and stained, a few minor chips and creases, front endpapers lightly wormed, flyleaf clipped.)


provenance: Giambattista Funghetti (d. 1767), inscription "Joy. Bapta Funghetti" on title-page (18th century) — unidentified owners, illegible inkstamps on title — "Biblioteca Letteraria | Prov. Ven. Med. S.I." on title-page and c4r — Christie's South Kensington, 15 November 2013, lot 355 (also describing the booklabel of Campagnia del Gesu, not present) (realized £875). acquisition: Purchased from Maggs Bros, London, 2016. references: Renouard XXXIV/9; Edit16 28711; USTC 862676; Decia & Delfiol p. 68 no. 9

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