Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/468
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    224 » 225 227 228 wooden boards, portrait of the owner painted on upper cover on an arched diapered background, on the tower cover his arms, per fess, in chief an eagle displayed, in base bendy of six preces argent and vert, covers loose, and back gone ; sold not subject to return [ Rome, S. Riessinger and G. Herolt], n. d. Cecco d’Ascoli [Francesco de Stabili]. Lo illustro poeta Cecho Dascoli: con comento, etc., title within woodcut border slightly soiled and inner margin frayed, wants 2 Il. (sign. A8 and C8) and last leaf defective, some Il. a little stained, a large number of small woodcuts,-original calf, defective, over wooden boards, binding broken and loose ; sold not subject to return Milan, Jo. Ant. de Castelliono, 26 Worl 1507 Savonarola (G.) Operetta del amore di Jesu, woodcut below title of a monk writing at a desk, several ll. stained, wants sign. C1 and the last leaf (apparently a blank), in Firenze per li heredt di Philippo di Giunta, 1529, with 2 others, both imperfect, loose in vellum cover; sold not subject to return (1) herbarum, numerous woodcuts of herbs and plants, wants 23 leaves (sheets f, i, sign. n2, and last leaf), one leaf (sign. a’) damaged, a few Ul. a little stained, vellum; sold not subject to return No place, printer or date (% 1509) Savonarola (G.) Operetta molto diuota sopra e dieci coma- damenti di dio diritta alla Madonna o uero Badessa del munistero delle Murate di Firéze, woodcut on title and last leaf, stained, wants 2 leaves (sign. dl—2), boards ; sold not subject to return Impressa in Firenze per Ser Lorenzo morgiant & Grouanni di Maganza, n. d. Arsop. Accii Zvchi summa .Campaneae Veronensis viri eruditissimi in Aesopi Fabulas interpretatio per rhyth- mos in libellum Zvcharinum inscriptum, etc., in Itahan and Latin, 93 leaves only (wanting 27, of which several are supplied in facsimile), numerous spirited woodcuts, a few ll. somewhat stained [Hain 345; Proctor 6915], boards, loose ; sold not subject to return Verona, G. and A. Alvise, 26 June, 1479 »* FIRST EDITION OF THIS ITALIAN VERSON. VERY RARE. Each fable is given in Latin elegiacs and then in Italian in two sonnets, the one *‘ materiale,’ the other “ morale.’’
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