Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 330
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Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(PETRARCA, FRANCESCO.) Sade, Jacques-François-Paul Aldonce de. Mémoires pour la Vie de François Pétrarque, tirés de ses Oeuvres et des Auteurs Contemporains, avec des Notes ou Dissertations. Half-title in first 2 volumes. 3 volumes. 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed, Volume 3 front joint starting; occasional toning and minor foxing. Armorial bookplates of C. W. H. Sotheby. Amsterdam [i. e., Avignon]: Arskée [sic] & Merkus, 1764-67
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first edition of a landmark of Petrarchan scholarship, culling biographical information from his own writings and including the original Italian and Latin texts with French translation and extensive commentary.