Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 340

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(VESPUCCI, AMERIGO.) Bandini, Angelo Maria. Vita e Lettere di Amerigo Vespucci. Engraved frontispiece, folding genealogical table. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf; generally clean internally with wide margins, lacks final unnumbered leaf; small inked armorial stamp on title page, small bookplate of Leonis S. Olschki on front pastedown. Florence, 1745
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"An elaborate panegyric of Vespucius, in which he is called the Discoverer of America"--Sabin 3149. "An indispensable work, a true landmark in Vespucian studies"--Borba de Moraes, page 68. European Americana 745/218; Palau 23255.