May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214

Sale 2214 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
PINELLI, MAFFEO. Bibliotheca Pinelliana. A Catalogue of the Magnificent and Celebrated Library of Maffei Pinelli, Late of Venice. xxviii, 538 pages; lacks the unnumbered 2-leaf revised order of sale. 8vo, 227x139 mm, original(?) boards, cover edges and corners worn, rebacked with calf; scattered foxing; uncut. London: Mess. Robson and Clarke and Mr. Edwards, [1789]

Additional Details

12,859 lots. "This library was catalogued for sale at fixed prices by Jacopo Morelli in six volumes at Venice in 1787. It was bought en bloc by the London bookseller James Edwards for £6000, and put up for auction in London in this catalogue abbreviated by Samuel Paterson from Morelli's six volumes"--Pollard & Ehrman 262. De Ricci, page 89; Nicolini 106; Taylor, Book Catalogues, pages 97-98.