Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 244

Price Realized: $ 162
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
POGGIUS FLORENTINUS [i. e., GIAN FRANCESCO POGGIO BRACCIOLINI]. Historia Florentina. Folding engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; folding engraved genealogical table. [6], xlvi, [2], 384, [15] pages, including blank f4. 4to, 270x 196 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep gilt, top spine compartment slightly wormed and chipped, joints cracked at top; table somewhat stained with small cellophane tape repair on verso, last several leaves dampstained in blank upper margins. Venice: Jo. Gabriel Hertz, 1715

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first edition of the Latin original text of a history of Florence first published in Italian translation in 1476.