Live auction - Lot 991

[Emblems]

ALCIATO, Andrea

Diverse imprese accommodate a diuerse moralità, con versi che i loro significati dichiarano

Lyon, M. Bonhomme, 1549


Hammer price: € 850

€ 800 / 1.000

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8vo: 441 [= 144] pp. (toned, dampstained at end, occ. soiling or min. paper flaws, ink stain on ff. C5-6, quire H loosening).

Mod. half vellum, decorative paper boards, titled flat spine, red sp. edges. In slipcase. Good copy.

Rare early Lyon ed. of the Italian translation of Alciato’s popular emblems (1st 1531). Title enclosed in elaborate architectural woodcut border, all subsequent pages with four-piece woodcut borders. 132 emblem woodcuts.
Ref. EDIT16 843. - SvGütlingen VIII:121:88 = Baudrier X:216. - Rawles/Saunders (French emblem books) F.028. - Landwehr, Romanic, 46. - Adams A-598.
Prov. Old ms. entries on title and front endpaper. - Mod. bookpl.

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Lot 991

Diverse imprese accommodate a diuerse moralità, con versi che i loro significati dichiarano

ALCIATO, Andrea

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