?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
Italian Imprints: Three 18th Century Examples.
Including the following small format titles:
1) Esercizi Spirituali di S. Ignazio di Loiola, Torino: Mairesse, 1724, octavo, with engraved portrait of Loyola bound before title, illustrated with twenty-eight religious and emblematic full-page engravings, and bound in attractive modern parchment over boards with gilt-decorated spine, with the original limp marbled paper wrappers bound in; 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.;
2) Carlo Cesare Malvasia's Le Pitture di Bologna [...] Rendono Il Passeggiere,, Bologna: Longhi, 1732, 12mo, half-title present, bound in contemporary limp parchment, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.; 3) Meraviglie della Natura, Torino: Il Ricca, [n.d. circa 1750-1788], octavo, woodcut title page depicting a spider spinning webs in a tree, the text is an educational work extracted from Pliny's writings on the natural world, mixed with a moralizing narrative; bound in contemporary limp paper wrappers; inscriptions dated in the late 1780s on ffeps; 8 x 5 1/4 in. (3)
