Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FOSSI, FERDINANDO; and FOLLINI, VINCENZIO. Catalogus codicum saeculo XV. impressorum qui in publica bibliotheca Magliabechiana Florentiae adservantur. xi, [1] pages, 812 columns, [2] leaves; viii pages, 964 columns, [1] leaf; xxx, [2] pages, 328 columns, [2] leaves, including half-title and colophon leaf in each volume, final blank in first volume, and errata leaf at end of the third. 3 volumes in 2. Folio, 430x282 mm, 3/4 morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, contemporary patterned paper wrappers bound in; Volume 3 preliminaries toned, infrequent minor foxing, otherwise a clean, wide-margined set. (EHLS) Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1793-95

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first edition of a catalogue of some 1500 incunabula in the Biblioteca Magliabechiana in Florence, which was formed from the collection of 30,000 volumes amassed by Antonio Magliabechi (1633-1714), librarian to Grand Duke Cosimo III of Tuscany, and later incorporated into the Biblioteca Nazionale. Besterman 5060; Horne, page 598-600; Nicolini 22.