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Auction archive: Lot number 22

Dante Alighieri

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,318 - US$3,091
Price realised:
£1,750
ca. US$2,704
Auction archive: Lot number 22

Dante Alighieri

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$2,318 - US$3,091
Price realised:
£1,750
ca. US$2,704
Beschreibung:

Dante Alighieri [OPERE] LA DIVINA COMMEDIA... CON VARIE ANNOTAZIONI, E COPIOSI RAMI ADORNATA (PROSE, E RIME LIRICHE EDITE, ED INEDITE). VENICE: ANTONIO ZATTA 1757-1758 4 volumes bound in 5 (volume 4 in two parts), 4to (282 x 203mm.), half-title (with avviso a' legatori on verso), engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, engraved vignettes on title-pages, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Empress Elisabeth Petrovna of Russia, with the dedication engraved, engraved portrait of Dante, 37+33+33+7 engraved plates by Magnini, Rizzi, Crivellari and others to designs by Fontebasso, Zompini, Schiavonio and Marcaggi, folding letterpress genealogical table, engraved argomento at head of each canto, engraved initials and tailpieces, contemporary vellum, spines lettered in gilt, lacking last 2 leaves in volume I (containing list of subscribers), marginal paper tear in t3 of volume 4, bindings very slightly soiled, head of spine on volume I slightly torn

Auction archive: Lot number 22
Auction:
Datum:
28 May 2015
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Dante Alighieri [OPERE] LA DIVINA COMMEDIA... CON VARIE ANNOTAZIONI, E COPIOSI RAMI ADORNATA (PROSE, E RIME LIRICHE EDITE, ED INEDITE). VENICE: ANTONIO ZATTA 1757-1758 4 volumes bound in 5 (volume 4 in two parts), 4to (282 x 203mm.), half-title (with avviso a' legatori on verso), engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, engraved vignettes on title-pages, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Empress Elisabeth Petrovna of Russia, with the dedication engraved, engraved portrait of Dante, 37+33+33+7 engraved plates by Magnini, Rizzi, Crivellari and others to designs by Fontebasso, Zompini, Schiavonio and Marcaggi, folding letterpress genealogical table, engraved argomento at head of each canto, engraved initials and tailpieces, contemporary vellum, spines lettered in gilt, lacking last 2 leaves in volume I (containing list of subscribers), marginal paper tear in t3 of volume 4, bindings very slightly soiled, head of spine on volume I slightly torn

Auction archive: Lot number 22
Auction:
Datum:
28 May 2015
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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