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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Elzeviri - Boccaccio, Giovanni

The Decameron of Messer Giovanni Boccacci, a Florentine citizen, as the Saints Giunti the Year 1527 printed it, 1665

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€ 220 - 280

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€ 282

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Amsterdam, G. Blaeu (Elzeviri), 1665. In 12th. Title in red and black engraved with an armillary sphere, ornate initials and typographical friezes, sporadic blooms, elegant brown calfskin binding, on the flat frame of fillets and leaf irons at the corners, spine with 4 nerves with author, title and friezes, the all embossed in gold, golden cuts, detached plates.


Specialist Notes

Bacchi della Lega, 47-48: "... beautiful and correct generally attributed to the Elzeviri. But Brunet, also comforted by the opinion of the compiler of the Uilenbroek Library (Amsterdam, 1729, in-8 °) believes it to have emerged from the trunks of John Blaeu ... pages 357 and 360 are mistakenly numbered 353, 356. In most of the copies the printer's preface to readers begins: The amateurs of the Tuscan language (like ours); in the other very few it begins: Here you are, Dear readers, etc. The first preface is wider than the second ". Willems, 343, no 1349. Brunet I, 1002. Graesse I, 451.