Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
SCALZINI, MARCELLO, called Il Camerino. Regole Nuove, et Avertimenti . . . co' quali potra ciascuno senza Maestra imparar facilmente a scriver bene . . . le Cancellaresche corsive Romane. 26 engraved plates; 26 leaves of letterpress text, including title. Oblong small 4to, 165x233 mm, modern vellum; occasional marginal soiling, early pen trials on verso of some plates, marginal restoration along top edge of first 5 leaves, last 2 plates torn in blank outer margin and restored. Brescia: Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1608

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Scarce manual of chancery cursive. Bonacini 1624; Berlin 2464; OCLC locates only the LC and Newberry copies in the U.S., and the Leibniz University of Hanover copy in Germany; not in SBN Catalogue.