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Auction archive: Lot number 14

FRANCISCUS COLUMNA, HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI VENICE: SONS OF ALDUS MANUTIUS, 1545.

Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$52,500
Auction archive: Lot number 14

FRANCISCUS COLUMNA, HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI VENICE: SONS OF ALDUS MANUTIUS, 1545.

Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$52,500
Beschreibung:

Colonna, Francesco HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI. VENICE: SONS OF ALDUS MANUTIUS 1545 2o (11 7/8 x 8 in.; 300 x 204 mm.). Roman Greek and Hebrew type. 170 fine woodcuts, including 9 full-page (with that containing Priapus unusually uncensored). 5- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters and hand-written initials. First and final leaves from the 1499 edition (without the printer's device). Repair to lower right corner of title page.) Printing sometimes light Modern dark blue morocco by James MacDonald, New York, covers detached.

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jun 2015
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

Colonna, Francesco HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI. VENICE: SONS OF ALDUS MANUTIUS 1545 2o (11 7/8 x 8 in.; 300 x 204 mm.). Roman Greek and Hebrew type. 170 fine woodcuts, including 9 full-page (with that containing Priapus unusually uncensored). 5- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters and hand-written initials. First and final leaves from the 1499 edition (without the printer's device). Repair to lower right corner of title page.) Printing sometimes light Modern dark blue morocco by James MacDonald, New York, covers detached.

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jun 2015
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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