Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
PETRARCA, FRANCESCO. De remediis utriusque fortunae. [164] (of [166]) leaves; lacks initial and final blanks. Roman type. Folio, 296x195 mm, 18th-century vellum boards, spine darkened; marginal foxing and stains, mainly at beginning and end, soiling on preliminaries and last leaf, scattered underscoring and partly cropped marginalia, small rust hole in blank upper margin of c4, few small wormholes through last several leaves not impairing legibility. (Cremona: Bernardinus de Misintis and Caesar Parmensis, 17 November 1492)

Additional Details

Third edition of Petrarch's dialogue on good and bad fortune, originally published circa 1473-75. Hain-Copinger 12793; BMC VII, 956; ISTC ip00409000.