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

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Guicciardini, Ludovico

The history of Italy, 1561

Estimate

€ 600 - 800

Sold

€ 17.620

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

385 x 260 mm

Florence, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1561. In 2nd. Large brand with weapons engraved in wood on the frontispiece and at the end, portrait of the author on the reverse of πA⁴, woodcut friezes and initials, ancient hand glosses, light blooms and reddening, small marginal woodworm holes, some slightly burnished papers, slight gora of water at the upper margin of a few booklets, rare small spots, 3I2 hole, small tear without loss on the last paper, binding of the century XVII in half parchment, author and title imprinted within a red piece and publisher and date within a green piece on the spine, slight defects. Paper ex libris on the counterplate.


Specialist Notes

First edition of this famous work consisting of 16 books that retrace the events that took place between the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, 1492 and that of Pope Clement VII, 1534.

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