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Piccolomini, Aeneas Sylvius
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Description
Epistolae familiares. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 16 kalends Augusti [17 July] 1486
4to (9 x 6 5/8 in.; 228 x 168 mm.). Types 12:64G, 14:130G, 52 lines, initial spaces. collation: a6, b –z, aa – hh8 = 246 leaves including initial blank leaf; light offset from blotting paper usually affecting first and last leaves of each quire. Contemporary bevelled oak boards, remains of clasps and catches, iron hook to be attached to a chain, title label on vellum strip on upper cover; rebacked in antique style with blind-stamped roses, lower hinge coming loose, joints and backstrip rubbed.
4to (9 x 6 5/8 in.; 228 x 168 mm.). Types 12:64G, 14:130G, 52 lines, initial spaces. collation: a6, b –z, aa – hh8 = 246 leaves including initial blank leaf; light offset from blotting paper usually affecting first and last leaves of each quire. Contemporary bevelled oak boards, remains of clasps and catches, iron hook to be attached to a chain, title label on vellum strip on upper cover; rebacked in antique style with blind-stamped roses, lower hinge coming loose, joints and backstrip rubbed.
Literature
HC 154; Goff P-719; BMC II, 430
Catalogue Note
This edition includes additional tracts by Piccolomini (De duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia) and by Leonardo Bruno Aretino (De duobus amantibus Guiscardo et Sigismunda).