Latin dialogues by Petraca printed in Cremona 1492
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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).
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Auktionsnummer:
6184
Datum:
2015-06-16