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Lot 127
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
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Live / Philadelphia
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$2,000 -
3,000
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$1,152
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Lot Description
[Early Printing] [Incunable] Savonarola, Girolamo. Expositione di frate Heironymo da Ferrara...
(Florence: Printer of the '"Caccia di Belfiore"), 1498. 8vo. 14 leaves. In 42 lines. 20th century grey boards, caramel-colored label on front board, light discoloration. Audin 145; BMC, VI 695; IGI 8737; ISTC is00216000; Giovannozzi 104; Goff S216; HR 14428; Ridolfi, I:389 and II:220
One of the most widely read and reprinted of Savonarola's works, which is believed to have been completed on the day of his execution for heresy. Between 1498 and 1581 the work was reprinted 32 times, with the present copy believed to be "printed in a later state of the type associated with the Printer of the Caccia di Belfiore, who is identified as Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri." (Tura, La Bibliofilia 101, pp. 1-16).

