Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
DRUDO, HILARIUS [pseud.], editor. Equitis Franci et adolescentulae mulieris Italiae practica artis amandi [and other texts]. 543, [9] pages, including colophon leaf and 2 blanks at end. 12mo, 19th-century red levant gilt by Trautz-Bauzonnet, spine darkened, front joint worn; contents browned. Bookplate of Douglas Maxwell Moffat. Oberursel: Cornelius Sutor, 1606

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Third edition of a collection originally published in 1597 comprising the epistolary romance Historia de duobus amantibus by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (before he became Pope Pius II) and miscellaneous writings by other authors. Gay-Lemonnyer II, 137; Willems 1665 note.