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

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Miniature book - Petrarca, Francesco

The Rhymes, 1879

Estimate

€ 280 - 350

Sold

€ 410

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Venice, Ferdinando Ongania, 1879. cm. 6.1x4.7. 2 parts in 1 volume. Two portraits in the front door of each part, numerous engraved vignettes, light browning and sporadic blooms, editorial parchment binding with decorated plates, title within the spine, very slight defects.

Specialist Notes

Edition of 1000 copies containing 6 sonnets "recently discovered by G. Veludo". Ongania explains in the preface that he adopted the famous "fly's eye" font used the previous year by the Salmin Brothers for Dante in miniature.