Boece, Hector — Petruccio Ubaldini

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 USD

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Description

Descrittione del regno di Scotia, et delle Isole sue Adiacenti di Petruccio Ubaldini... Antwerp [London: J. Wolfe], 1588.
Ink, paper and cow

Folio (11 x 7 1/4 in.; 280 x 180 mm.). Woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Paper repairs on lower left corner of the whole volume and last leaf, last leaf stained. British Library duplicate stamp on verso of the title and verso of last leaf. Modern calf.

Provenance

William H. Crawford (bookplate) — Bibliotheca Abbagiae (bookplate) — British Library (duplicate stamp "Museum Britanicum" "Duplicate for sale 1769"). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 2002.

Literature

STC 24480

Catalogue Note

Italian edition of Boece's Historia Gentis Scotorum.