May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 448
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
GIOVIO, PAOLO, Bishop of Nocera. Delle Storie del suo Tempo. Italian translation by Lodovico Domenichi. [8], 548, [28]; [8], 794, [30] pages. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 192x146 mm, later 17th-/early 18th-century blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard, covers warped; minor marginal dampstaining at beginning and end; red edges. Signature of Nicolaus Gottfried Kraenner; stamp of Maximilian Gutzwiller. Venice: Francesco Rocca, 1565

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Giovio's chief work, which first appeared in 1550-52 in Latin, "one of the most valuable and anecdotally rich Renaissance histories" (OCIL).