Lot 234
  • 234

Petrarca, Francesco

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Physicke against Fortune, as well prosperous, as adverse, conteyned in two Bookes... And now first Englished by Thomas Twyne. London: [T. Dawson] for Richard Watkyns, 1579
  • Paper, Ink, Leather
4to in 8's (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.; 196 x 133 mm). Title within decorative woodcut border, decorative woodcut initials; Nineteenth century brown morocco gilt by Bedford; some fading (especially to upper front cover and spine), hinges slightly rubbed. 

Provenance

Cardiff Castle (bookplate) — The Bute Library (Christie's London, 15 March 1995, lot 167) 

Literature

STC 19809

Catalogue Note

Only sixteenth-century edition in English of Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortunae