Book production - Printing - Italy, 1495-1515 - Venice - Aldo Manuzio

Lot Comprises:

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: the strife of love in a dream / Francesco Colonna; the entire text translated for the first time into English with an introduction by Joscelyn Godwin, New York, Thames & Hudson, 1999, fol., publisher's light gold cloth, dust jacket

Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, (Venetiis, Aldo Manuzio, 1499): [introduction by] Peter Dronke, Zaragoza, Ediciones del Pórtico, 1981, fol., publisher's olive‐green cloth

Andrew Lang, The strife of love in a dream: being the Elizabethan version of the first book of the Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna, London, David Nutt, 1890, fol., publisher's whiteboards, limited edition of sixty copies, copy no. 12

Le songe de Poliphile: Francesco Colonna; traduction de l'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili par Jean Martin (Paris, Kerver, 1546); présentation, translittération, notes, glossaire et index Gilles Polizzi Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1994, 4to., publisher's original paper wrappers

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Francesco Colonna; edizione critica e commento a cura di Giovanni Pozzi e Lucia A. Ciapponi

, Padua, Editrice Antenore (printed in Verona by Stamperia Valdonega of Giovanni Mardersteig), 1964, fol., 2 vols., publisher's brick colored cloth, limited edition, copy number 276 of 1,300

Helen Barolini, Aldus and his Dream Book, New York, Italica Press, 1992, 8vo., publisher's cream wrappers

Stefano Borsi, Polifilo Architetto, cultura architettonica e teoria artistica nell' Hypnerotomachia Poliphili di Francesco Colonna, 1499, Rome, Officina Edizioni, 1995, 4to., publisher's brown paper wrappers

Maurizio Calvesi, La "Pugna d'Amore in Sogno" di Francesco Colonna Romano, Roma, Lithos Editrice, 1996, large 8vo., publisher's green paper wrappers

Anthony Colantuono, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation: Equicola's Seasons of Desire, Ashgate, Farnham, 2009, 4to., publisher's black cloth, dust jacket

Liane Lefaivre, Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Re‐Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, MIT Press, 1997, fol., publisher's brown boards, dust jacket

Charles Nodier, Francesco Colonna: a fanciful tale of the writing of the Hypnerotomachia (translated by Theodore Wesley Koch), Chicago, [R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., at the Lakeside Press, Chicago], 1929, 4to., publisher's orange rippled cloth

Jos. Poppelreuter, Der Anonyme Meister des Poliphilo: Eine Studie zur italienischen Buchillustration und zur Antike in der Kunst des Quattrocento (reprinted from Kunstgeschichte - Zur Kunstgeschichte des Auslandes, Hft. 20, 1900), Strassburg, Heitz & Mündrel, 1904, fol., publisher's orange paper wrappers

Maria Gioia Tavoni, Un libro in mostra: l'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili cioè la Pugna d'amore in sogno: edizione cinquecentesca di un capolavoro tipografico posseduto dalla Biblioteca "Ubaldo Mazzini" della Spezia

, [La Spezia], Istituzione per i servizi cultirali del Comune della Spezia, 2001, 4to., publisher's red wrappers

Martine Furno, Une "Fantaisie" sur l'Antique: le goût pour l'épigraphie funéraire dans l'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili de Francesco Colonna

, Geneva, Droz, 2003, 4to., publisher's red cloth gilt

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