Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305
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Sale 2305 - Lot 287

Price Realized: $ 600
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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
BIANCO [or BIANCHI], NOÈ. Viaggio da Venetia al S. Sepolcro, et al Monte Sinai. Title in red and black with woodcut cruciform device incorporating Franciscan motto; 156 primitive woodcut text illustrations, including 5 double-page city views (Corfu, Methoni, Heraklion, Rhodes, and Cairo). 192 pages. 8vo, 150x104 mm, old calf-backed paste-paper boards, top of spine chipped; contents toned and dampwrinkled with some light soiling and dampstaining, few marginal wormholes in title, next leaf gnawed in lower margin affecting a few letters, old signature on title. Bassano: Gio. Antonio Remondini, circa 1675?
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Profusely illustrated account of an early 16th-century pilgrimage to the Holy Land attributed to a Venetian Franciscan. See Tobler, pages 63-64 and 70.