Dec 01, 2005 - Sale 2059

Sale 2059 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
BEMBO, PIETRO. De Aetna ad Angelum Chabrielem liber. [15] (of [16]) leaves; lacks initial blank * Ad Herculem Strotium de Virgilii culice et Terentii fabulis liber. [36] leaves, including initial blank and 2 blanks at end. first edition * Ad Nicolaum Teupolum de Guido Ubaldo Feretrio deque Elisabetha Gonzagia Urbini ducibus liber. [56] leaves, including initial and final blanks. first edition. Together, 3 volumes in one. 4to, contemporary limp vellum, lacks ties, book block loose in binding. (Venice: per Joan. Ant. eiusque fratres de Sabio, 1530; 1530; 1530)

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The first work, originally published in 1495, describes the Sicilian volcano Mt. Aetna; the second concerns a poem about a gnat attributed to Vergil; the third is on the death of Guidobaldo de Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino.