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Lot 9
Pulci (Luca) Epistole di Luca de Pulci al magnifico Lorenzo de Medici, rare, [Venice], [Manfredo Bonelli], 1505.
Hammer Price: £1,500
Description
Pulci (Luca) Epistole di Luca de Pulci al magnifico Lorenzo de Medici, collation: A-K4, Gothic type, title within a four-piece woodcut border, some light foxing (mostly marginal), bookplate of Adolfo Tura, vellum over boards by Gozzi of Modena, gilt, covers with medallion bearing inscription 'Torre del Palasciano', 8vo (146 x 94mm.), [Venice], [Manfredo Bonelli], [21 October, 1505].
⁂ Rare first edition of this particular collection of poems, with EDIT 16 recording only two copies. The woodcut border was first used by Bonelli in his Aesop of 1491.
Literature: Essling 1499 (mentioning this copy, "Florence, Collection Torre, 1898"); Sander 6008; EDIT 16 CNCE 69334.
Description
Pulci (Luca) Epistole di Luca de Pulci al magnifico Lorenzo de Medici, collation: A-K4, Gothic type, title within a four-piece woodcut border, some light foxing (mostly marginal), bookplate of Adolfo Tura, vellum over boards by Gozzi of Modena, gilt, covers with medallion bearing inscription 'Torre del Palasciano', 8vo (146 x 94mm.), [Venice], [Manfredo Bonelli], [21 October, 1505].
⁂ Rare first edition of this particular collection of poems, with EDIT 16 recording only two copies. The woodcut border was first used by Bonelli in his Aesop of 1491.
Literature: Essling 1499 (mentioning this copy, "Florence, Collection Torre, 1898"); Sander 6008; EDIT 16 CNCE 69334.
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