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Auction archive: Lot number 31

BARLETIUS, Marinus (1450-1526)]. Historia de vita & gestis Scanderbegi. Rome: Bernardo Vitali, [ca. 1520].

Auction 03.04.1996
3 Apr 1996
Estimate
£700 - £1,000
ca. US$1,061 - US$1,516
Price realised:
£1,495
ca. US$2,266
Auction archive: Lot number 31

BARLETIUS, Marinus (1450-1526)]. Historia de vita & gestis Scanderbegi. Rome: Bernardo Vitali, [ca. 1520].

Auction 03.04.1996
3 Apr 1996
Estimate
£700 - £1,000
ca. US$1,061 - US$1,516
Price realised:
£1,495
ca. US$2,266
Beschreibung:

BARLETIUS, Marinus (1450-1526)]. Historia de vita & gestis Scanderbegi. Rome: Bernardo Vitali, [ca. 1520]. 2° (300 x 210mm). Roman letter. Title in red and black with woodcut border of scenes from Roman history, full-page portrait of Scanderbeg on AA4v, some woodcut initials. (Lacking final blank, title and final leaf holed, torn and neatly repaired, the title with some loss, rusthole in outer margin of q3.) Later vellum (lower cover split). FIRST EDITION OF THE LIFE OF THE ALBANIAN NATIONAL HERO. The portrait, one of the finest renaissance portraits found in a printed book, is probably the work of a Venetian artist. It is apparently based on a portrait miniature executed about the time of Scanderbeg's visit to Rome in 1465 (he died in 1467). Vitali worked in Venice for many years, with only occasional forays to Rome and Rimini. Mortimer, Harvard Italian 43; Adams B-216; Sander 780.

Auction archive: Lot number 31
Auction:
Datum:
3 Apr 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

BARLETIUS, Marinus (1450-1526)]. Historia de vita & gestis Scanderbegi. Rome: Bernardo Vitali, [ca. 1520]. 2° (300 x 210mm). Roman letter. Title in red and black with woodcut border of scenes from Roman history, full-page portrait of Scanderbeg on AA4v, some woodcut initials. (Lacking final blank, title and final leaf holed, torn and neatly repaired, the title with some loss, rusthole in outer margin of q3.) Later vellum (lower cover split). FIRST EDITION OF THE LIFE OF THE ALBANIAN NATIONAL HERO. The portrait, one of the finest renaissance portraits found in a printed book, is probably the work of a Venetian artist. It is apparently based on a portrait miniature executed about the time of Scanderbeg's visit to Rome in 1465 (he died in 1467). Vitali worked in Venice for many years, with only occasional forays to Rome and Rimini. Mortimer, Harvard Italian 43; Adams B-216; Sander 780.

Auction archive: Lot number 31
Auction:
Datum:
3 Apr 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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