Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
MOCENIGO, ANDREA. Bellum Cameracense. [188] leaves. Small 8vo, 19th-century marbled boards, spine and cover edges quite worn; scattered foxing, title soiled, with later Caen Jesuit ownership inscription, dampstaining in blank outer margins in middle of volume. (Venice: Bernardino dei Vitail, 1525)

Additional Details

first edition of a history of the 1508-16 series of Italian wars in which shifting alliances fought for territorial control in northern Italy, with the League of Cambrai initially formed by Pope Julius II against the Venetian Republic giving way to the Holy League against the French. Adams M1518; Alden 525/11 (for reference to Hispaniola on q8v).