Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PETRARCA, FRANCESCO. Phisicke against Fortune, as well prosperous, as adverse, conteyned in two Bookes. English translation by Thomas Twyne. Title within woodcut strapwork border. [8], 342, [3] (of [4]) leaves; lacks final blank. Mostly printed in black letter. 4to, 188x139 mm, early 19th-century sheep with trimmed 16th-century blind-tooled calf covers laid down, worn overall; contents dampstained with scattered traces of mold, crude restoration in torn or wormed lower outer corner of the preliminaries affecting only the title border. London: Richard Watkyns, 1579

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first edition in english of Petrarch's Latin dialogue on good and bad fortune, originally published circa 1473-75. STC 19809.