Live auction - Lot 1072
[Italy - Milan]
Opera & dies [...].
HESIODUS
€ 1.000 / 1.500
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Lot description
[Milan, S. Magniagus?, c. 1483]
4to: [16] ff. (incl. final blank), 30-32 ll.
Modern binding : paper wrappers.
Excellent wide-margined copy. Latin verse translation from the Greek by Nicolaus de Valle or Niccolò Della Valle (fl. 1444-1473) of a smaller popular work by the Greek epic poet Hesiod. On the verso of the last leaf, "Nicolaus de Valle, Disticha ad Pium II". Initial capital space with guide-letter rubricated. Ref. ISTC ih00136500.- GW 12395.- IGI VI:4723-A.- BSB-Ink H-227.- Not in Goff, BMC, CIBN. Provenance : Jacques Vieillard (modern bookplate); [Georges Petit].
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