Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291
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Sale 2291 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 2,280
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
AUGURELLO, GIOVANNI AURELIO. [Poemata.] [128] leaves, including blank second and penultimate leaves, and last leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 152x97 mm, 18th-century 1/2 mottled calf gilt with red leather lettering piece, decorated paper pastedowns; scattered light foxing, faint soiling on title. (Venice: House of Aldus, April 1505)
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first aldine edition of a collection of odes and epistles by a humanist scholar and alchemist (1441-1524). On K1r-K3v is a poem called Chrysopoeia, on the philosopher's stone, foreshadowing Augurello's major 1515 work of the same title on the transmutation of metals into gold. Renouard, page 49(2); New UCLA 89.