CORIO, Bernardino (1459-1519 ca.) - L'Historia di Milano volgarmente scritta. Venice: Giovanni Maria Bonelli, 1554.
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| Event location | Italy, Milano |
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ID 474225
Lot 6 | CORIO, Bernardino (1459-1519 ca.) - L'Historia di Milano volgarmente scritta. Venice: Giovanni Maria Bonelli, 1554.
Estimate value
€ 300 – 500
Second edition of this important history of Milan, which appeared for the first time in 1503 (see previous lot).
4to (208 x 152mm). Frontespizio con marca tipografica raffigurante Minerva che cavalca un leone entro cornice figurata, marca tipografica in fine con un ragno al centro della tela, vignetta xilografica a piena pagina nel testo a 5.6, iniziali xilografiche istoriate, ultima bianca (occasionali fioriture, poche carte con piccolo restauro all'angolo inferiore, leggero alone di umidità al margine esterno). Pergamena del XVIII secolo, titolo su etichetta al dorso, tagli a spruzzo (sguardie e cuciture moderne); preservato entro cofanetto moderno in carta decorata e con ritratto in facsimile moderno inserito all'inizio dell'opera.
Title with printer's device within frame depicting Minerva riding a lion, printer's device at the end with a spider, full-page woodcut vignette in the text at 5.6, woodcut historiated initials, with final blank (occasional spotting, few leaves with small restoration in the lower corner, light dampstaining in outer margin). 18th-century vellum, title on spine label, speckled edges (modern endpapers and stitching); preserved in a modern box in decorated paper and with a modern facsimile portrait inserted at the beginning of the work. Provenance: Aegigy? Giannini (early ownership note on title page) - inscription on final leaf with printer's device, remains of a red wax stamp on second leaf - Mostra del libro antico (fair ticket).
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