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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.