Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(COURTESY BOOKS, etc.) Group of 5 works in 4 volumes. 8vo, various bindings. Vp, 1539-1604

Additional Details

Castiglione, Baldassare. Il Lirbo [sic] del Cortegiano. 210, [2] leaves, including 2 blanks at end forming rear endpapers. Venice: Luigi Torti, 1539. Contemporary limp vellum with 19th-century vellum backstrip over spine; contents generally clean apart from partly inked out inscriptions on title and few minor stains.

Casa, Giovanni della. Tratatto . . . cognominato Galatheo. 44 leaves. Milan: Giovanni Antonio degli Antoni, 1559. bound with his: Trattato de gli Uffici Communici tra gli Amici Superiori et Inferiori. 22, [2] leaves, including 2 blanks at end. Milan: Giovanni Antonio degli Antoni, 1559. Early 19th-century 1/4 sheep gilt; scattered stains.

Sansovino, Francesco. Del Secretario . . . Libri VII. [16], 222, [2] leaves, including 2 blanks at end. Venice: heirs of Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1580. 18th-century vellum boards; light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end.

Pino da Cagli, Bernardino. Del Galant'Huomo; overo, Dell'Huomo Prudente et Discreto. [4], 179, [1] leaves. Venice: Sessa, 1604. Contemporary limp vellum; contents browned with dampstaining in outer margins throughout.