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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). The Decameron. Venice: Valgrisi, 1555.
Copy of this scarce edition with early annotations of a lexical nature and numerous underlinings of sentences and specific words, suggesting that the volume was annotated by a scholar of the Florentine vernacular. This is the variant with the date 1555 on the main title page and 1554 on the second title page. Elegant early 20th-century Swedish binding signed Gustav Hedberg and formerly owned by Edward Cardwell, a British politician known for the British military reform that bears his name.4to, (223 x 154mm). Three-quarter-page woodcut illustrations before each day, woodcut initials (light staining to upper margin). Fine full blind-tooled neo-Renaissance binding signed by Gustav Hedberg (1859-1920). Provenance: Numerous contemporary notes and underlining in the text; Ex-libris of Edward Cardwell (1813-1886) (carried over from the previous binding); ex-libris Bogh Aalborg to the 20th-century endpapers. (1)
ESTIMATE € 1,000 - 1,500
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ORIGENES (185-254). Que hoc in libro continentur. Venice: Bernardino Benali, 1512.
ORIGENES (185-254). Que hoc in libro continentur. Venice: Bernardino Benali, 1512.
ESTIMATE € 600 - 800
