Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291

Sale 2291 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE. Il Libro del Cortegiano. [5], 195, [8] leaves. 8vo, 149x98 mm, contemporary limp vellum with calligraphic spine title in ink, spine slightly darkened and rubbed with small hole, ties lacking; scattered marginal foxing, light soiling on title; gilt edges, gauffered to strapwork pattern with row of repeating dark cinquefoils in center. 18th-century stamp of the Colonna library on title and elsewhere. (Venice: House of the Sons of Aldus), 1547

Additional Details

Fourth Aldine edition. Renouard, page 139(1); New UCLA 367.