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Auction archive: Lot number 259

Castiglione, Il libro del cortegiano, Venice, Aldus, 1547, later calf

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 259

Castiglione, Il libro del cortegiano, Venice, Aldus, 1547, later calf

Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Castiglione, Baldassarre. Il libro del cortegiano del conte Baldesar Castiglione, di nuovo rincontrato con l'originale scritto di mano de l'auttore: con la tavola di tutte le cose degne di notitia: et di piu, con una brieve raccolta de le conditioni, che si ricercano a perfetto cortegiano, et a donna di palazzo. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1547
8vo (153 x 93 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-CC8: 208 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and final verso.
binding: Eighteenth-century speckled calf with double gilt fillet border (160 x 102 mm), spine with gilt fillets across bands and red morocco lettering-piece, red edges. (Binding slightly rubbed, joints cracked.)
provenance: Henry Poley (1654-1707), of Badley in Suffolk, armorial bookplate dated 1703 — Livraria Parthenon, Sao Paulo, booklabel — Fiammetta Soave, "Bibliotheca Aldina" label. acquisition: Purchased from Fiammetta Soave, Rome, 1991. references: UCLA 367; Edit16 10075; Renouard 139/1

Auction archive: Lot number 259
Auction:
Datum:
12 Oct 2023
Auction house:
Sotheby's
34-35 New Bond St.
London, W1A 2AA
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7293 5000
+44 (0)20 7293 5989
Beschreibung:

Castiglione, Baldassarre. Il libro del cortegiano del conte Baldesar Castiglione, di nuovo rincontrato con l'originale scritto di mano de l'auttore: con la tavola di tutte le cose degne di notitia: et di piu, con una brieve raccolta de le conditioni, che si ricercano a perfetto cortegiano, et a donna di palazzo. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1547
8vo (153 x 93 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-CC8: 208 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and final verso.
binding: Eighteenth-century speckled calf with double gilt fillet border (160 x 102 mm), spine with gilt fillets across bands and red morocco lettering-piece, red edges. (Binding slightly rubbed, joints cracked.)
provenance: Henry Poley (1654-1707), of Badley in Suffolk, armorial bookplate dated 1703 — Livraria Parthenon, Sao Paulo, booklabel — Fiammetta Soave, "Bibliotheca Aldina" label. acquisition: Purchased from Fiammetta Soave, Rome, 1991. references: UCLA 367; Edit16 10075; Renouard 139/1

Auction archive: Lot number 259
Auction:
Datum:
12 Oct 2023
Auction house:
Sotheby's
34-35 New Bond St.
London, W1A 2AA
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7293 5000
+44 (0)20 7293 5989
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