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Thursday 24 June 2021 e Friday 25 June 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Alighieri, Dante

(Firenze 1265 - Ravenna 1321)

The Vita Nuova in the sixth centenary of Dante Alighieri's death, 1921

Estimate

€ 100 - 200

Sold

€ 358

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Information

Bergamo, Italian Statute of Graphic Arts, 1921. In 4 °. With numerous color illustrations and gold and color friezes, closed double sheets, editorial binding in velvet with gold-embroidered decorations on the plates, gilt upper cut, & nbsp; abrasions on the spine. Dedication of Nestore Leoni to Giuseppe Bottai dated Rome 1 January 1938, Year VI. § & nbsp; Alighieri, Dante; Razzolini, Attilio. & nbsp; The Divine Comedy illustrated by Eng. Attilio Razzolini & nbsp; Milan, Alfieri & amp; Lacroix, 1902. In oblong 24 °. With 104 color lithographic pages, with illustrations at the beginning of each canticle, figured initials and vignettes, Gothic characters of the century XV, slight marginal yellowing, editorial half-web binding, portrait of Dante within an oval leather insert on the front plate, traces of leather laces on the plates, slight defects. § & nbsp; Fenini, Cesare ; & nbsp; Scaramuzza, Francesco, Galleria Dantesca , Milan, Hoepli, 1880. With 3 chromolithographs and 30 plates, blooms, light browning, some reddening, tear at the white margin with lack of the paper containing the Canto I, without loss of text, defects in the internal hinges, fabric binding, front plate decorated in black and gold with a portrait of Dante in the center, cuts gold, hinges and back flaws, some small stains. & nbsp;



Specialist Notes

I work: Exemplary n. 461 signed by Nestore Leoni and Vittorio Grassi of a limited edition of 1321 copies with elegant allegorical illustrations by Vittorio Grassi and friezes by Nestore Leoni, facsimile of the edition published on parchment in 1907.