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Lot 27
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Dürer, Albrecht

Estimate
2,500 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Della simmetria dei corpi humani libri quattro. Nuovamente tradotti dalla lingua latina nella italiana, da M. Gio. Paolo Gallucci. Venice: Domenico Nicolini, 1591
  • Paper
folio (314 x 217mm.), woodcut device on title-page and final leaf, woodcut initials and illustrations (3 leaves folding), contemporary limp vellum, preliminary leaves misbound, marginal paper repairs to first and last few leaves, binding repaired at extremities with new endleaves

Literature

Censimento 16 CNCE 17841; Cicognara 321; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 169; Riccardi i, 569

Catalogue Note

FIRST ITALIAN EDITION of Dürer's work on the symmetry of the human body, translated by the astronomer Gallucci. The woodcuts are close copies of the first edition in German, printed in Nuremberg in 1528.