Live auction - Lot 694
[Neo-Latin poetry]
Actii synceri Sannazarii De partu Virginis libri III. Eiusdem De morte Christi lamentatio [...].
(Venice, Heirs of A. Manuzio the elder, & A. Torresano the elder), 1533
Hammer price: €
220
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Lot description
8vo: [4]-100 ff. (ms. entry crossed out on title, sm. marg. wormtracks in begin. and in text at end, foxing, sl. marg. damp stains, browning and quire D browned, one strophe crossed out at f. 98 verso).
Contemp. vellum, ink-titled flat spine (two wormtracks and one wormhole).
Third edition but first published posthumously of the poems of the Neapolitan, Latin and Italian court poet Sannazaro (1455-1530). Printed in italics with space-guide letters. Aldine's anchor on title and verso of last leaf.
Ref. EDIT16 27215. - Renouard 110:11. - Adams S-331. - STC Italy 605.
Prov. Commandant Farges (bookpl.).
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