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CEPIO, Coriolanus (1425-93)

Lot 109
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Lot 109 | CEPIO, Coriolanus (1425-93)
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CEPIO, Coriolanus (1425-93)

Petri Mocenici imperatoris gesta. Venice: Bernhard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt, and Peter Löslein, 1477.

First edition of a first-hand account of the Levantine expedition against the Turks (1470-74) following Negroponte. The author, the humanist nobleman Coriolano Cippico, accompanied the future Doge Pietro Mocenigo at the battle of Scutari, and he describes ancient monuments and their epigraphs as well as the capture of Smyrna, the Venetian protectorate of Cyprus, and Scutari. He takes great care in highlighting the Venetian victories under Mocenigo, in contrast to the earlier failure of Mocenigo's predecessor, Niccolò Canal, at Negroponte. This is probably the first appearance of the fine woodcut border surrounding the dedication; its slightly different placement in various copies indicates that it was printed separately from the type-page (see A. Vincent in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1929, p.102). A large, fresh copy. HC *4849; GW 6473; BMC V, 244; IGI 2684; Sander 1912; Essling 254; BSB-Ink C-221; Bod-inc. C-165; Goff C-378; ISTC ic00378000.



Super-chancery quarto (205 x 159mm). 54 leaves. Roman and Greek types, woodcut vine-work border on a2, woodcut initials. 18th-century vellum over thin pasteboard, pastepaper pastedowns, red edges (small wormholes at spine); modern grey morocco-backed solander box. Provenance: a few contemporary marginal annotations – Joseph Bufera of Fabriano (inscription) – Fabriano, Cathedral library, gift of prior Franciscus Bufera in 1766 (inscription) – George Dunn of Woolley Hall (bookplate, pencilled notes on flyleaf, sale Sotheby's, 22 November 1917, lot 2021, £18.10 to Quaritch) – C.S. Ascherson (bookplate) – George Abrams (booklabel, sale Sotheby's, 16 November 1989, lot 33) – [sold Christie’s, 29 Nov. 2000, lot 36].







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Artist:Coriolan Cepio (1425 - 1493)
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Antiquarian books, Printed books
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