Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BOCCHI, ACHILLE. Symbolicarum quaestionum . . . libri quinque. 151 engraved emblems by Giulio Bonasone. [48], 357, [3] pages, including final blank. 4to, 208x151 mm, 19th-century crimson morocco by Belz-Niedrée, spine darkened, chipped at top, front cover detached; marginal foxing, blank lower outer corner off R1, dark stains in outer margins of T2-4, owner's inscription on verso of last leaf, showing through on recto. Morocco bookplate of Carson Brevoort. Bologna: Societas typographiae Bononiensis, 1574

Additional Details

Second edition, with plates retouched by Agostino Caracci; the first appeared in 1555. Praz, page 276 note; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 77.