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Auction archive: Lot number 26

DANTE, OPERA, VENICE, 1757-1758, 4 VOLUMES

Estimate
£3,000 - £4,000
ca. US$4,831 - US$6,442
Price realised:
£3,750
ca. US$6,039
Auction archive: Lot number 26

DANTE, OPERA, VENICE, 1757-1758, 4 VOLUMES

Estimate
£3,000 - £4,000
ca. US$4,831 - US$6,442
Price realised:
£3,750
ca. US$6,039
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, 4to (272 x 198mm.), 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, 38+33+33 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 mottled calf with gilt fillet border, spines gilt in compartments with brown and red morocco lettering-pieces, red edges, in two marbled slipcases, occasional light foxing in vol. 4

Auction archive: Lot number 26
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 2013
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, 4to (272 x 198mm.), 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, 38+33+33 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 mottled calf with gilt fillet border, spines gilt in compartments with brown and red morocco lettering-pieces, red edges, in two marbled slipcases, occasional light foxing in vol. 4

Auction archive: Lot number 26
Auction:
Datum:
27 Nov 2013
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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