Dante Alighieri. Le terze rime di Dante con sito, et forma de lo Inferno novamente in restampito, collation: [π]2, a-z8, A-H8, double-page woodcut plan of hell, 3 full-page diagrams depicting the categories of sins punished in Hell and in Purgatory, lacking blanks H7&8, but with blank l2, first 2 ff. repaired at inner margin and remounted, partially removed ink stamp to title, lower corners of woodcut repaired, some staining, recased in 17th century vellum, 8vo (156 x 97mm.), [Venice], [Gregorio de' Gregori], [after August, 1515]. ⁂ Rare near contemporary counterfeit of the first Aldine Commedia to be illustrated, which was issued in August 1515. The counterfeited volume appeared only a few months after the original Aldine edition. It was issued entirely anonymously, without date or printer's device; however, since the research of Colomb de Batines the printing has generally been attributed to Gregorio de' Gregori, who was active in Venice between 1480 and 1528. Provenance: Library of the Carmelite convent St. Teresa in Turin (early ownership inscription to title, 'Ex libris Bibl. Carm. Discalceatorum Conventus Sanctae Teresiae Taurini'); Charles Edwin Wilbour (1883-1896, American Egyptologist; stamp on the upper margin of some leaves). Literature: Batines i, pp. 75-76; Mambelli 25; Martini, pp. 29-30; Koch 7; Sander 2322; EDIT 16 CNCE 1151.
Dante Alighieri. Le terze rime di Dante con sito, et forma de lo Inferno novamente in restampito, collation: [π]2, a-z8, A-H8, double-page woodcut plan of hell, 3 full-page diagrams depicting the categories of sins punished in Hell and in Purgatory, lacking blanks H7&8, but with blank l2, first 2 ff. repaired at inner margin and remounted, partially removed ink stamp to title, lower corners of woodcut repaired, some staining, recased in 17th century vellum, 8vo (156 x 97mm.), [Venice], [Gregorio de' Gregori], [after August, 1515]. ⁂ Rare near contemporary counterfeit of the first Aldine Commedia to be illustrated, which was issued in August 1515. The counterfeited volume appeared only a few months after the original Aldine edition. It was issued entirely anonymously, without date or printer's device; however, since the research of Colomb de Batines the printing has generally been attributed to Gregorio de' Gregori, who was active in Venice between 1480 and 1528. Provenance: Library of the Carmelite convent St. Teresa in Turin (early ownership inscription to title, 'Ex libris Bibl. Carm. Discalceatorum Conventus Sanctae Teresiae Taurini'); Charles Edwin Wilbour (1883-1896, American Egyptologist; stamp on the upper margin of some leaves). Literature: Batines i, pp. 75-76; Mambelli 25; Martini, pp. 29-30; Koch 7; Sander 2322; EDIT 16 CNCE 1151.
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