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Auction archive: Lot number 44

DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Commedia con la nova expositione di Alessandro Vellutello . Venice: Francesco Marcolini for Alessandro Vellutello, June, 1544.

Auction 23.11.1994
23 Nov 1994
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$794 - US$1,271
Price realised:
£529
ca. US$840
Auction archive: Lot number 44

DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Commedia con la nova expositione di Alessandro Vellutello . Venice: Francesco Marcolini for Alessandro Vellutello, June, 1544.

Auction 23.11.1994
23 Nov 1994
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$794 - US$1,271
Price realised:
£529
ca. US$840
Beschreibung:

DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Commedia con la nova expositione di Alessandro Vellutello . Venice: Francesco Marcolini for Alessandro Vellutello, June, 1544. 8° (232 x 152mm). Three full-page woodcuts and 84 woodcut illustrations in the text, final blank leaf. (Rather dampstained, outer margin of bifolia BB1/8 repaired touching text, ff. AH1 and AI7 torn and repaired, a few other minor tears, a few leaves browned.) 19th-century half calf (scuffed, spine detached). Provenance : Libreria Leo S. Olschki (typed description loosely inserted). First edition with the Vellutello commentary, with woodcuts made for this edition, this copy with the three missing lines stamped at foot of f.V7 r . Harvard Italian 146; Adams D-94

Auction archive: Lot number 44
Auction:
Datum:
23 Nov 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). La Commedia con la nova expositione di Alessandro Vellutello . Venice: Francesco Marcolini for Alessandro Vellutello, June, 1544. 8° (232 x 152mm). Three full-page woodcuts and 84 woodcut illustrations in the text, final blank leaf. (Rather dampstained, outer margin of bifolia BB1/8 repaired touching text, ff. AH1 and AI7 torn and repaired, a few other minor tears, a few leaves browned.) 19th-century half calf (scuffed, spine detached). Provenance : Libreria Leo S. Olschki (typed description loosely inserted). First edition with the Vellutello commentary, with woodcuts made for this edition, this copy with the three missing lines stamped at foot of f.V7 r . Harvard Italian 146; Adams D-94

Auction archive: Lot number 44
Auction:
Datum:
23 Nov 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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