Live auction - Lot 1266

[Italian literature]

Troiano, in qual tratta la destruttione di Troia, per amor di Helena Greca, la qual fu tolta da Paris Troiano, al Rè Menelao [...].

Padua, S. Sardi, [1650]


Hammer price: € 300

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8vo: [112] ff. (paper age-toned, some staining, B16 cut short shaving a few letters, sm. holes in E7-8, wormtracks in F9-10 touching some letters, tear in F10).

Old boards, paper covered spine (rubbed, loosening, def. at bottom and spine). Good copy.

Very rare Italian poem in 20 "Canto's" of 8-line stanzas, on the Trojan War, 1st publ. 1528. "Attributed to Jacopo di Carlo, or Angelus Joannes Franci or Franciscanus" (Rhodes). Woodcut illustration on title, 20 woodcut ill. in-text (at the beginning of each Canto). Title within border of type ornaments. Printed in 2 col.
Ref. Rhodes (BL) 921. - BnF.

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Lot 1266

Troiano, in qual tratta la destruttione di Troia, per amor di Helena Greca, la qual fu tolta da Paris Troiano, al Rè Menelao [...].

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