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Lot 85
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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$600 -
900
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$1,080
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Lot Description
[Dante] Giambullari, Pier Francesco. De'l Sito, Forma, & Misure, dello Inferno di Dante
Florence: Neri Dortelata, 1544. First edition. 8vo. 153, (15) pp. Illustrated with woodcut printer's device on title-page and verso of terminal leaf, as well as 11 in-text woodcuts (depicting the circles and structure of Hell). In period style full limp vellum; intermittent spotting and foxing to text; old ownership signature at bottom of title-page.
A fine copy of this curious work on the structure and dimensions of Dante's Hell, by Italian writer and teacher Pier Francesco Giambullari.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.