Rime di Francesco Petrarca

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Sale 397: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#397) 02/19/2009 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 02/19/2009 1:00 PM PST

Lot #23Rime di Francesco Petrarca

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$1,750

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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Sale 397: Rare Books & Manuscripts (#397) 02/19/2009 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 02/19/2009 1:00 PM PST

Description

Heading:

(Bodoni)

Title:

Rime di Francesco Petrarca

Author:

Petrarca, Francesco

Place Published:

Parma

Publisher:

Co' Tipi Bodoniani

Date Published:

1799

Description:

2 volumes. [2], lxiv, 365; [2], viii, 330 pp. (Folio) 17½x11½, later marbled boards. First Bodoni Edition.

Rare folio issue, untrimed, with generous margins. A handsome example of Bodoni's typography Brooks 733.

Condition:

Some light wear to extremities, boards scuffed; repair tear in lower margins of final 2 leaves of Volume 1, some foxing and light staining; very good.

Item#:

200014

Headline:

Bodoni printing of Petrarca's Rimes 1799
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