Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. Genealogiae . . . eiusde[m] de mon[n]tibus & sylvis, de fontibus, lacubus, & fluminibus [etc.]. Title in red and black with woodcut vignette of St. Bartholomew; 13 full-page woodcut genealogical tables. 162 leaves. Folio, 308x217 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over pasteboard, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, covers slightly warped, with portions restored, endpapers renewed; intermittent mostly marginal dampstaining, scattered marginalia, opening leaves dog-eared with paper corrosion along fore edges, stains and old scored inscription on title, clean tear in i1, table on verso just shaved at bottom, s3.6 browned. Bookplate of M. A. Colson. (Venice: Agostino Zani, 15 November 1511)

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Eighth edition of Boccaccio's genealogically arranged mythological encyclopedia and geographical dictionary, which was first printed in 1472. Essling 801; Sander 1079.