Auction Closed
October 12, 08:25 PM GMT
Estimate
600 - 800 USD
Lot Details
Description
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccaccio nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato. (Florence: heirs of Filippo Giunta, 14 April 1527) [i.e. Venice: Stefano Orlan༒delli for Salvatore Ferrari, "coi torchi di [Ang🎃elo] Pasinello", 1729]
A crisp tall copy of the facsimile edition of the Ventisettana. This copy has numerous extracts from sale catalogues regarding♉ copies of the Decameron past🌠ed to the rear flyleaves.
4to (238 x 166 mm). Italic type, 39 lines plus headline. collation: AA8 a-z [et] [con] [rum] A-H8 I12: 292 ꧒leaves (AA8 blank). Woodcut Giunta device on title-page and final🌳 verso.
binding: Contemporary Italian vellum (247 x 172 m𓄧m), morocco lettering-pieces on spine. (Binding slightly soiled, lettering- pieces rubbed.)
provenance: Abbate Teodoro Maria Franceso Gasparo Correr (1750-1830, founder of the Museo Correr), armorial bookplate — Marion and Rudolf Gottfried, booklabel. acquisition: Purchased from C.A. Stonehill, New Haven, 1991. references: Edit16 24078