Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M

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Manuzio, Lettere volgari di diuersi nobilissimi huomini, Venice, Sons of Aldo, 1549, nineteenth-century vellum

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October 18, 08:42 PM GMT

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500 - 800 USD

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Manuzio, Paolo. Lettere volgari di diuersi nobilissimi huomini, et eccellentissimi ingegni, scritte in diuerse materie.

Nuouamente ristampate, et in più luoghi corrette. Libro primo. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1549

 

[Bound with:] Lettere volgari di diversi nobilissimi hvomini, et eccellentiss. ingegni, scritte in diverse materie, Nuouamente ristampate, & in piu luoghi corrette. Libro secondo. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1550

 

2 works in one volume, 8vo (151 x 96 mm). (Libro primo) Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-R8: 136 leaves, foliated. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Repair to title, foxing, a few stray stains.) — (Libro secondo) Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-P8: 120 leaves, foliated. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Some foxing and old folds.)

 

binding: Nineteenth-century vellum (155 x 109 mm), flat spine, gilt-lettered red morocco label, edges stained red.


provenance: Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave (1827-1919), ex libris — Sir Robert Horton (1939-2011), his sale, Bonhams London, 12 November 2013, lot 96. acquisition: Purchased at Bonhams via Robin Halwas. references: (Libro primo) UCLA 390; Renouard 146/14; Edit16 26978; USTC 803351; (Libro secondo) UCLA 400; Renouard 147/14-15; Edit16 26981; USTC 803436

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