PETRARCA, FRANCESCO. De remediis utrisque fortunae... (Ed. Nicolaus Lucarus). Cremona (Bernardinus Misinta - Caesar Parmensis) 1492. Folio (303x195 mm.). 161 ll (of 166, lacks first blank, first 3 leaves Index and last blank) signed a-b8 c-z6 A-B& C7. 43-44 lines. Not rubricated. Some woodcut initials. Last page with woodcut printer's device. 19th century full calf gilt and blindstamped, rebacked and slightly worn, on the middle of covers a gilt crest and the name Newstead Abbey, all edges gilt. Some marginal annotations. Provenance: Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire, England, the ancestral home of Lord Byron. Hain-Copinger 12793; GW M31618. Originally published in Esslingen or Strassbourg c. 1475, this is the third edition (the second edition was published at Heidelberg about 1490). "Considers good and bad fortune; contains a plea for public libraries as against private collections, and "Dialogi" on such topics as bodily illness, memory, alchemy, sterility, old age, fevers, poison, toothache, and deafness" (Margaret Bingham Stillwell: The awakening interest in science during the first century of printing 1450-1550. New York 1970, p. 148). From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013). Photo.
PETRARCA, FRANCESCO. De remediis utrisque fortunae... (Ed. Nicolaus Lucarus). Cremona (Bernardinus Misinta - Caesar Parmensis) 1492. Folio (303x195 mm.). 161 ll (of 166, lacks first blank, first 3 leaves Index and last blank) signed a-b8 c-z6 A-B& C7. 43-44 lines. Not rubricated. Some woodcut initials. Last page with woodcut printer's device. 19th century full calf gilt and blindstamped, rebacked and slightly worn, on the middle of covers a gilt crest and the name Newstead Abbey, all edges gilt. Some marginal annotations. Provenance: Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire, England, the ancestral home of Lord Byron. Hain-Copinger 12793; GW M31618. Originally published in Esslingen or Strassbourg c. 1475, this is the third edition (the second edition was published at Heidelberg about 1490). "Considers good and bad fortune; contains a plea for public libraries as against private collections, and "Dialogi" on such topics as bodily illness, memory, alchemy, sterility, old age, fevers, poison, toothache, and deafness" (Margaret Bingham Stillwell: The awakening interest in science during the first century of printing 1450-1550. New York 1970, p. 148). From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013). Photo.
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