Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CROCE, GIULIO CESARE.) Bios tou Bertoldinou yiou tou panourgou Bertoldou kai ai geloiotatai aftou aplotites. Woodcut title vignette and 5 text illustrations. 92 pages. 8vo, 172x108 mm, later 19th-century cloth, contemporary decorated paper wrappers bound in; minor dampstaining in corners at beginning and end, 19th-century scrawls and doodles inside wrappers. Stamp of the scholar and rabbi Moses Gaster (1856-1939) on title. Venice: Nikolaos Glykys, 1818

Additional Details

Scarce Greek chapbook on the escapades of the simpleton Bertoldino, derived from writings by Croce (1550-1609).