Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362
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Sale 2362 - Lot 211

Price Realized: $ 1,625
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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(HYPOCHONDRIA.) L' Ipocondria. Composizione Anacreontica di . . . Entusiasmo Annebbiati da Vall'Oscura [pseud.]. 3 etched plates with 5 subjects by Giuseppe Buonaiuti. 52 pages. 4to, 222x163 mm, contemporary gilt-panelled vellum boards, recased, endpapers conspicuously renewed; few small wormholes through blank margins of opening leaves, scattered foxing minimally affecting illustrations, few dark stains on E4 and last plate. Florence: Pietro Gaetano Viviani, 1758
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scarce first edition of a bizarrely illustrated allegorical poem describing the narrator Fabrizio's experiences in the Kingdom of Hypochondria, with commentary by the author. OCLC locates 3 copies in the U.S. and one in Great Britain; SBN locates 4 in Italy.