May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 277

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
Petrarch, Francesco (1304-1374)
Il Petrarcha con la Spositione di M. Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo. I Trionfi del Petrarca, con la spositione di M. Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo da Traetto.

Venice: per Domenico Giglio, [1553].

Two parts in one volume, large quarto, each with its own separate title page printed within a woodcut border incorporating busts of Petrarch and Laura; illustrated with six vignettes, edited with commentary by Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo; the I Trionfi section bound first in this copy; bound in full 17th century French speckled calf with gilt-tooled spine, worn with losses to endcaps, boards still attached; contents with minor faults, both title pages slightly cropped; armorial bookplate of the Bibliotheque de Rosny inside front board (torn with loss), 8 x 6 in.

Adams P-820.