Lot 604
Italian works--Terentius Afer, Publius
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Il Terentio latino, comentato in lingua Toscana. Venice: V. Valgrisi, 1558, 8vo, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials, eighteenth century vellum, bookplates of J.F. Betts and Robert Weiss, [Adams T351], small dampstain on title; Anselmo, Giorgio Epigrammaton libri septem. [no place or date, ? Venice, c.1545]; and Palaphaetus. Palefato opra bellissima, quale narra le historie. Venice: Bartolomeo detto l'Imperatore & Francesco Venetiano, 1545, 12mo, woodcut device on title, 12mo, 2 works in one volume, modern vellum, title laid down, blank corner of a1 torn away; Dion Cassius Delle guerre romane libri XXII. Venice: G. de Farri & fratelli, 1542, small 8vo, woodcut on title, later vellum, [Adams D512], very slight worming to last few leaves; [St Catherine of Sienna] Dialogo della serafica vergine, et sposa di Christo, S. Catherina da Sienna. Venice: D. Farris, 1579, 8vo, woodcut on title, later calf-backed boards, [not in Adams], dampstained at beginning and end; Saachi, Bartholomaeus, de Platina Le vite de pontifici. Venice: A. Bortoli, 1703, 4to, original boards, pp.467-482 never bound in, worn; Cassiano, Johannes Opera. Venice, 1563, 4to, woodcut device on title, original vellum, [not in Adams], early marginalia, name deleted from title creating hole, repaired on verso, some worming to last few gatherings, dampstaining mainly marginal; Kempis, T.a De imitatione Christi. Venice: F. ex N. Pezzana, 1773, 12mo, contemporary calf, rubbed; Bembo, Pietro Lettere di M. Pietro Bembo a sommi pontefici et a cardinali. Venice, 1542, 8vo, drop-head title, later parchment, occasional damp-staining; Piccolomini, Alessandro L'instrumento de la filosofia. Rome: V. Valgrisi, 1552, 12mo, woodcut device on title and verso of final leaf, [not in Adams], nineteenth-century morocco-backed cloth; Chifletius, P. Sacro sancti et oecumenici concili Tridentini. Lucca: F. Banelli, 1702, 12mo, woodcut title, laid down, contemporary vellum, a few headlines cropped; [Librorum prohibitorum] Index librorum prohibitorum... Pii Sexti. Rome: Camerae Apostolicae, 1786, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, woodcut on title, vellum, worn, lacking spine; Bernard, of Clairvaux Querela sive dialogus anime et corporis damnati. Rome: J. Russinelli, 1587, 12mo, woodcuts, contemporary blindstamped vellum, [not in Adams], a few early annotations; and 10 other Italian books, mostly seventeenth century, one defective; sold not subject to return (23)