ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-72). Opera . Edited by Girolamo Massaini. [Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, ca. 1499]. Chancery 4° (211 x 142mm). Collation: a-f 8 g 4 (a1r title, a1v editor's dedication to Roberto Puccio, a4v text, g4v laudatory verses on the author by Antonius Sabinus Imolensis). 52 leaves. 33 lines. Type: 97R. Ornamental woodcut initials, simple diagrams on e6v. 16th-century vellum. Provenance : a few neat, contemporary MS. corrections; Duke of Sussex (bookplate); Gilbert Redgrave (bibliographer, 1844-1941, inscription dated 1886, bookplate, bibliographical notes, sale Sotheby's 22 June 1936); Lord Clark of Saltwood (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of the literary compositions of Alberti. Perhaps best known as an architect and author of De re aedificatoria , Alberti was a leading literary figure of Renaissance Florence. Few copies of the Opera survive (only two in America, one of which, the New York Historical Society copy, was sold in December 1995). HCR 416; GW 571; BMC VI, 659 (IA. 27402); Goff A-211; Sander 158.
ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-72). Opera . Edited by Girolamo Massaini. [Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, ca. 1499]. Chancery 4° (211 x 142mm). Collation: a-f 8 g 4 (a1r title, a1v editor's dedication to Roberto Puccio, a4v text, g4v laudatory verses on the author by Antonius Sabinus Imolensis). 52 leaves. 33 lines. Type: 97R. Ornamental woodcut initials, simple diagrams on e6v. 16th-century vellum. Provenance : a few neat, contemporary MS. corrections; Duke of Sussex (bookplate); Gilbert Redgrave (bibliographer, 1844-1941, inscription dated 1886, bookplate, bibliographical notes, sale Sotheby's 22 June 1936); Lord Clark of Saltwood (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of the literary compositions of Alberti. Perhaps best known as an architect and author of De re aedificatoria , Alberti was a leading literary figure of Renaissance Florence. Few copies of the Opera survive (only two in America, one of which, the New York Historical Society copy, was sold in December 1995). HCR 416; GW 571; BMC VI, 659 (IA. 27402); Goff A-211; Sander 158.
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