Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/850
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    241 242 243 244. Daniello (B.) La Poetica, old olive morocco gilt, worn, Venice, 1536—Bonarelli (G.) Filli di Sciro, plates, old vellum [1607] —Raguaglio della Giostra alla Quintana, engraved title, boards, Verona, 1622; and another 4to. (A) DANTE. La Divina Comments. [Brains]. ComENTO pi Curis- TOPHERO LANDINO FIORENTINO SOPRA LA COMEDIA DI DANTHE ALIGHIERL PoETA FIORENTINO, roman letter, 366 leaves (the four blank leaves wanting) | Hain, *5496 ; Proctor, *6120 ; Pellechet, 4114], with engravings attributed to Baccio Baldini after the designs of Botticelli for Cantos I & II (the spaces for the other engravings left blank), the first page of the Inferno illuminated with a large initial N and broad marginal decoration painted in colours on a gold ground ; three other large initials painted in burnished gold on coloured grounds with marginal decoration (Purg. Cant. | and Paradiso, Prologue and Cant. I); another initial in burnished gold on the first page. The first engraving (beginning of the Inferno) shaved at foot, slightly damaged and repaired ; a tiny wormhole through a few leaves at beginning ; one page (sig. bb 7) ts blank through a mistake in the printing and lacks the teat, a small hole in two leaves (sig. ce 6 and G7), bound in brown morocco by F’. Bedford, tooled and gilt to an old design, g.e. from the Vernon Collection Folio. Florence, Nicolo di Lorenzo, 30 Aug. 1481 THE FIRST FLORENTINE EDITION AND THE FIRST WITH LANDINO’S CoMMENTARY. AN UNUSUALLY LARGE COPY, MEASURING 164 IN. BY 102 InN. * [See ILLUSTRATION. | Dante. Divina Commenis, 324 Ul. roman letter, woodcuts im text, a few coloured, first leaf discoloured and margin repavred, a single worm-hole at beginning, vellum [ Hain, 5950; Proctor, *4.4.82 | | folto. (118 in. by TE in.). Venice, P. de Plastis, 18 Nov, 1491 Dante. La Divina Commedia, 4 vol. plates, vellum gilt, g. @. 4to. Rome, 1791 Dante. De la Volgare Eloquenzia. Trissino (G. G.) Epistola de le Lettere nuovamente aggiunte ne la Lingua Italiana, woodcut printer's device four tumes repeated, old vellum . folio. Vicenza, Tolomeo Janicolo, 1529 ** Printed in an italic fount, which includes the “letters newly added to the Italian language,’ the most noticeable of which is » used for long o. D
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