Auction 61 AUCTION 61: RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS 2
By HELIOS
Sunday, Apr 6, 12:00 PM
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An extremely varied selection of paper-related items, including 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle Antique Incunabula Liber Chronicarum Hartmann Schedel, 1764 Bible by Anthony Purver Quaker Antique 2 Two-folio volumes, 1531 Dante Alighieri Post-Incunabula l'Amoroso Convivio in Italian, among many other interesting subjects.
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LOT 18:

1549 ROMAN HISTORY BY POMPONIO LETO ANTIQUE VELLUM BOUND 16 CENTURY IN ITALIAN

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Price including buyer’s premium and sales tax: $ 444.84
Start price:
$ 325
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1549 ROMAN HISTORY BY POMPONIO LETO ANTIQUE VELLUM BOUND 16 CENTURY IN ITALIAN

Compendio del'Historia Romana di Pomponio Leto dalla morte di Gordiano il giovane fino a Giustino terzo,

tradotto per messer Francesco Baldelli...

Venezia, appresso Gabriel Giolito di Ferrarij, 1549.

rare first Italian edition of the "Romanae Historiae Compendium"

by the humanist Pomponio Leto (1428-1498)

an important historical work dedicated to ancient Rome.

Size 4 by 6 1/3"

126 [ie 127] lvs

TITLE PAGE and 11 text pages are missing (n. 8, 33, 40, 57, 63, 64, 65, 72, 89, 96, 121)

Some errors in paginating

Studio copy with papers in overall good condition, with the usual signs of use and aging and some humidity stains.

One leaf with lacking upper corner

full vellum binding with manuscript title on the spine, well preserved.

Lacks front endpaper.

Text in Italian

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