?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) Il Decameron.
Venice: Per li Giunti di Firenze, 1585.
Quarto, stated third Giunta edition, edited by Leonardo Salviati (1540-1589), drawing from 14th century manuscripts in the Tuscan dialect; printer's woodcut device to title page, a nice suite of historiated woodcut initials used throughout the text; leaf with engraved and printed dedication on page 587; bound in later half mottled leather and brown marble-patterned boards, worn; minor worming, mostly to blank margins, minor spotting; old stamps to title page, signature torn from foot of title; 8 1/8 x 6 in.
Not in Adams [1582 Giunta second edition is Adams B-2158].
