?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Tani, Nicolò (fl. circa 1550) Avertimenti sopra Regole Toscane, con la Formatione de Verbi, & Variation delle Voci.
Venice: Jovita Rapirio, [1550].
First edition, octavo, large woodcut on title depicting a full standing image of Prudence, text in italic type, some historiated woodcut initials, bound in later blind-ruled calf, ex libris Louis Thompson Rowe (1855-1927) with bookplate, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Playwright Tani's short work on the Tuscan dialect was influenced by Bembo and is rare at auction.
Biblioteca dell'Eloquenza Italiana di Monsignore Giusto Arcivescovo d'Ancira, Parma: Fratelli Gozzi, 1803.
