Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
25th November 1882
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/33
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the celebrated Poliphilo (? Zoan Andrea Valvasore), fine copy im old Hnglish red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Roger Payrnz, from Beckford’s library, £48. Venettis, per Manfredum de Moteferato . . . 1491. Excessively rare, and exhibiting perhaps the earliest productions of that dexterous hand from which the Poliphilo of 1499 derived its lovely engravings. 12162 POLIPHILO. HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI, vbi hvmana omnia non nisi Somnivm esse docet. atqve obiter plurima scitv sane qvam digna commemorat [auctor Franciscus Columna], Jtalice, folio, Epirio Princers, with exquisitely beautiful wood engravings from designs by b (t.e. Giovanni Bellino or Sandro Botticelli), some of them in a contemporary colouring, the leaf of Hrrata in facsimile, otherwise fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, by C. Hardy (801 by 198 mallimétres), £36. Venetiis apud Aldum, 1499 the same, small folio, Thick Paper, the woodcuts pure and untact, and the leaf of Hrrata genwine, a very fine copy in old red morocco extra, gilt edges, in Derome’s style, £90. AQ 12164 POLIPHILO. La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, cicé Pugna d’Amore in Sogno; doy’ egli mostra che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che Sogno, folio, with the same beautiful cllustra-’ tions as in the first edition, fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, genre Derome, £40. Venetia, fighiuolt dv Aldo, 1645 another copy, small folio, without the four preliminary leaves, calf, £20. 12166 Fiorn pe Virru, small 4to. numerous spirited woodcuts, the title- page surrounded by a woodcut border containing several figures, and bearing the initials B.'T., purple morocco, gilt edges, £18. Mediolant, per Lazarwm de Turate, 1502 This is perhaps an unknown master, and may not be Benvenuto Tisio Garofalo of Florence, who, although only twenty-one years of age at the date of this book, was already a skilled engraver. The moral precepts are illustrated by stories, so that the book may be attached to the class of Novelle. The woodcuts, being executed for the stories, lend an additional interest to this edition. 12167 [OVIDIT METAMORPHOSES.] Habebis candide lector. P. Ouidii Nasonis Metamorphosm castigatissimam, cum Raphaelis Regul commentariis emendatissimis, & capitulis figuratis decenter appositis, folio, numerous fine woodcuts by the artist who illus- trated the Poliphilo (1. A.== Zoan Andrea), fine copy in purple. morocco, gilt edges, with the autograph of J. Ruskin, £25. Parme Hapensis § Labore Francisct Mazilis ...M.d.v. (1505) 12168 BOCCACCIO. L’oprra DE missrr Grovan Boccaclo DE MULIERI- BUS CLARIS, sm. 4to. Roman letter, numerous fine woodcuts, attributed to B. Montagna or G. Bellino, green morocco extra, gilt edges, £6. 6s Venetia, Zuanne de Trino chimato (sic) Tacuino, 1506 121469 BERGOMENSIS (Jacobi Philippi [Foresti]) Novissime Historiarii. omnii repercussides: . . . . que Supplementum supplementi Cronicari nuncupantur ... usq’ in Annt . m.coccevi, stout folio, numerous pictorial subjects and beautiful 12168 12165