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Lot 187
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
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Nov 12, 2020
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Nov 13, 2020
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Lot Description
[16th CENTURY PRINTING - VENICE]. A group of 3 works, comprising:
BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547). Gli asolani.... Venice: Aldus, 1505. Woodcut devices. (Lacking 4 leaves: c1, i2, n1, and n2 [blank].) Contemporary vellum (a few gatherings becoming disbound). Provenance: Ownership inscription on first leaf ("Coll. Polinani? Soc. Jesu"). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the dedication to Lucrezia Borgia, dated August 1504, on a1v-a2r, which was removed for the second issue. -- COLLENUCCIO, Pandolfo (1444-1541). Compendio delle historie del Regno di Napoli. Venice: Michele Tramezino, July 1541. 8vo. Woodcut device. (Upper corner repaired two leaves touching text.) Contemporary vellum gilt. Not in Adams. -- CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IV, and other works. Venice: Ex Bibliotheca Aldina, 1569. Comprising ff. 184 only (lacking 34 leaves). Later vellum. See Adams C-1689. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, condition generally good.
Property from the Collection of Edward A. Quattrocchi



