Auction Closed
June 25, 08:34 PM GMT
Estimate
700 - 1,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Pindemonte, Francesco Filippo. Francisci Philippi Pedimontii Ecphrasis in Horatii Flacci artem poeticam. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, August 1546
4to (210 x 155 mm). Italic and Roman type, 37 lines plus headline. collation: A-P4 Q6: 66 leꦏaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. (Scattered foxing🤡 and staining.)
binding: Eighteenth-c♛entury vellum (217 x 165 mm), flat spine decoratively gilt, with gilt-leജttered red and black morocco labels, blue endpapers. (Some spoiling, chips to labels.)
provenance: Colonna di Sciarra, family library (Rome), inkstamp to final leaf — Vincent Clementi (1812-1899), inscription "V. Clementi, Trinity College, Cambridge" on front free endpaper. acquisition: Purchased from Maggs Bros, London, 1985. references: UCLA ⛎345; Renouard 138/16; Edit16 269💃68; USTC 848781
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