Live auction - Lot 772

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico

L'Hore di ricreatione. Les heures de récréation. Faictes italiennes & françoises pour l'utilité de ceux qui désirent apprendre les deux langues.

Paris, P. Guillemot, 1636


Hammer price: € 160

€ 120 / 150

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Lot description

12mo: [2]-412-[48] ff. (sl. dampstaining throughout, occ. foxing, tear with sm. lack to f. 17, lower blank corner to f. 41 missing, lack of paper to blank margin of f. 162, marg. wormholes, esp. to ff. 363-370, staining to ff. 348 & 365-370).

19h-c. red morocco, covers ruled with a gilt fillet and roll-stamp, gilt orn. flat spine, gilt fillet on edges, gilt inside "grecque" roll-stamp, a.e.g. (spine very sl. faded, trimmed copy, occ. shaving running titles).

Parallel ed. (Italian-French transl. by François de Belleforest) of this work full of anecdotes leading to insights into matters such as money, the time that passes, love, women, infidelity, politics, religion, etc. The first Italian ed. was published in 1568 and the first French translation in 1571.
Ref. Goldsmith (BL) 891. - BGL II-473 (other ed.).
Prov. Château du Bec (blind-stamped on front flyleaf).

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Lot 772

L'Hore di ricreatione. Les heures de récréation. Faictes italiennes & françoises pour l'utilité de ceux qui désirent apprendre les deux langues.

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico

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