Live auction - Lot 718
Aardige en vermakelyke historien van Bocatius, den Florentyner. Op eenen lossen en onbedwongenen trant in 't Nederduitsch overgezet [...].
Cologne, J. Gaillard [= The Hague, Fr. Moselagen?], 1732
Hammer price: €
340
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
2 vol., 8vo: front.-xiv-487-[15], 539-[19] pp. (front. underlaid).
Contemp. calf (some repairs at corners & spines), gilt spines with 5 raised bands, brown leather title labels. Good copy.
Very rare first Dutch translation of "Contes et nouvelles de Boccace" (Amsterdam 1697), editing the Decameron of Boccaccio, written in Italian between 1349 and 1353. Engr. ill.: front. of the French edition, headpiece in prelims and 100 half-page plates after Romeyn de Hooghe, one per tale (taken from the French ed.). First title in red and black.
Ref. Brunet I:1006. - Cohen 161. - STCN 374356904.