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Auction archive: Lot number 76

BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547, Cardinal). Rime . With Le Stanze . Venice: Giovanni Antonio dei Nicolini da Sabbio and his brothers, 1530.

Auction 23.06.1993
23 Jun 1993
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,023 - US$4,534
Price realised:
£4,370
ca. US$6,605
Auction archive: Lot number 76

BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547, Cardinal). Rime . With Le Stanze . Venice: Giovanni Antonio dei Nicolini da Sabbio and his brothers, 1530.

Auction 23.06.1993
23 Jun 1993
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,023 - US$4,534
Price realised:
£4,370
ca. US$6,605
Beschreibung:

BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547, Cardinal). Rime . With Le Stanze . Venice: Giovanni Antonio dei Nicolini da Sabbio and his brothers, 1530. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4° (207 x 150mm.). Collation: A-D 8 E 1 0 (A1-2 r blank, A2 v title, Rime , E10 r errata, E10 v blank); A-C 4 (A1 blank, A2 dedication to Ottaviano Fregoso, Le Stanze , C3 r colophon, C3 v -4 blank). Italic type. (Two small stains at the beginning.) Contemporary vellum, blue sprinkled edges. Provenance : contemporary manuscript of a sonnet by Bembo, first published in 1548 as Se già ne l'età mia più verde e calda , but here in a slightly different reading. FIRST EDITION of Bembo's important vernacular poetry. It is MUCH RARER than his De Aetna (1495), Gli Asolani (1505) or Prose (1525). VERY FINE COPY. Gamba 141 note; Parenti p.72.

Auction archive: Lot number 76
Auction:
Datum:
23 Jun 1993
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547, Cardinal). Rime . With Le Stanze . Venice: Giovanni Antonio dei Nicolini da Sabbio and his brothers, 1530. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4° (207 x 150mm.). Collation: A-D 8 E 1 0 (A1-2 r blank, A2 v title, Rime , E10 r errata, E10 v blank); A-C 4 (A1 blank, A2 dedication to Ottaviano Fregoso, Le Stanze , C3 r colophon, C3 v -4 blank). Italic type. (Two small stains at the beginning.) Contemporary vellum, blue sprinkled edges. Provenance : contemporary manuscript of a sonnet by Bembo, first published in 1548 as Se già ne l'età mia più verde e calda , but here in a slightly different reading. FIRST EDITION of Bembo's important vernacular poetry. It is MUCH RARER than his De Aetna (1495), Gli Asolani (1505) or Prose (1525). VERY FINE COPY. Gamba 141 note; Parenti p.72.

Auction archive: Lot number 76
Auction:
Datum:
23 Jun 1993
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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