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Sale 295: Rare Books & Manuscripts - Voyages - Natural History - Finely Bound Sets (#295) 10/14/2004 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #182Rime di Francesco Petrarca

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Sale 295: Rare Books & Manuscripts - Voyages - Natural History - Finely Bound Sets (#295) 10/14/2004 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 10/14/2004 1:00 PM PDT

Description

Title:

Rime di Francesco Petrarca

Author:

Petrarca, Francesco

Place Published:

Pisa

Publisher:

Tipografia della SocietaÌ Letteraria

Date Published:

1805

Description:

2 volumes. Frontispiece portrait after Stefano Tofanelli, engraved by Raffaello Merghen. Includes a biography of Petrach. (folio) 15¾x10, original marbled boards; paper spine labels.

Beautifully printed, folio edition of Petrach's Rimes. Brunet IV, 555, "aussi belle que celle de Bodoni". Grasse V, 299 states this is one of 250 copies.

Condition:

Boards worn and detached, spine of vol. 2 largely perished; some dampstain, including corner dampstain to frontispiece and moderate dampstain to first half of vol. 2, scattered light spotting; still a nice copy, in original boards, entirely untrimmed.

Item#:

150474
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