Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
LONGUS. Gli Amori Pastorali di Dafni et di Cloe. Italian translation by Annibale Caro. [4], xxiii, [3], 319 [i. e., 329] pages, including initial blank. 8vo, 151x102 mm, contemporary mottled calf with leather lettering piece and decorated paper endleaves, dark stain on front cover; contents clean; red edges. 19th-century booklabel of Ludovico Passarini; 20th-century bookplate of Roberto Almagià. "Crisopoli," nd [i. e., Parma, 1794]

Additional Details

first bodoni octavo edition, limited to 250 copies; reprinted from the 1786 quarto original edition. Brooks 537; Gamba 1490 note.