Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z

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Petrarca, Le cose vulgari di messer Francesco Petrarcha, [Lyon, Baldazare de Gabiano? 1501-1502?], English morocco by Charles Lewis

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June 25, 08:34 PM GMT

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6,000 - 8,000 USD

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Petrarca, Francesco. Le cose vulgari di messer Francesco Petrarcha. [Lyon: Baldazare de Gabiano? 1501-1502?]


Rare. One of two Lyonese counterfeit editions of the 1501 Aldine Petrarch, and among the earliest of all Aldine counterfeits.


8vo (158 x 98 mm). Italic type, 29 lines. collation: a-y8 z4 ($3) A8 (z4 a blank): 187 leaves (of 188l lacking A8, a blank.) (Restoration to lower corner of a6 and z2, a few stray spots.)


binding: English morocco by Charles Lewis (164 x 108 mm), with his circular morocco ticket, double blind fillet around sides, gilt quatrefoil in corners, inner rectangle of single gilt fillet flanked by blind fillets, gilt feather in corners, title on upper cover in gilt, spine gilt, vellum pastedowns and endleaves. Housed in red cloth slipcase and folding chemise.


provenance: Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892) — Lt. Col. Sir George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926); his sale, Sotheby's London, 5-9 December 1927, lot 256 (part) — Libreria antiquaria Ulrico Hoepli, Milan; purchased in previous sale (£29) — Conte Paolo Camerini (1868-1937), ex libris "Biblioteca Cameriniana, Piazzola." — Georges Heilbrun, Catalogue 45: Le premier caractère italique en France (Paris [1976]), item 4. acquisition: Purchased from Georges Heilbrun, Paris, 1976. references: UCLA 1101; Renouard 308/17; Edit16 57759; FB 82502; USTC 142816; Baudrier, VII, 15 (first Petrarca listed); Shaw 2

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