437 - Gunnar Kaldewey - Francesco Petrarca. Canzoniere CXXVI. Poestenkill, New York 2013. Includes five color aquatint etchings based on watercolors by Gunnar Kaldewey. Light brown original suede binding with cutouts on the front cover and blue velvet endpapers (signed: Thomas Zwang, Hamburg). Comes with the set’s slipcase in an original gray chemise with a gold-embossed title on the spine and a slipcase.

Gunnar Kaldewey - Francesco Petrarca. Canzoniere CXXVI. Poestenkill, New York 2013. Includes five color aquatint etchings based on watercolors by Gunnar Kaldewey. Light brown original suede binding with cutouts on the front cover and blue velvet endpapers (signed: Thomas Zwang, Hamburg). Comes with the set’s slipcase in an original gray chemise with a gold-embossed title on the spine and a slipcase. Auction start time: approx. 5:21 p.m. (schedule subject to change) Kaldewey Press 78. - One of ten deluxe copies (total print run of 40) in leather binding, featuring the etchings in purple with gold-framed texts, as well as a suite of etchings on green Japanese paper; all sheets in the suite are signed and numbered. - On Johannot handmade paper. - Gunnar Kaldewey considers Canto 126 to be the most beautiful and important in Petrarch’s *Canzoniere*. Cat. Bennington, p. 20 41.5 × 17.0 cm. [28] pages, 5 etchings. - Slipcase with a wide light margin; spine of the chemise is faded. - The accompanying text sheets and the edges show very few small foxing spots. English description: Includes five color aquatint etchings based on watercolors by Gunnar Kaldewey. Light brown original buckskin binding with cutouts on the front cover and blue velvet endpapers (signed: Thomas Zwang, Hamburg). Comes with the set’s wrapper in an original gray chemise, featuring a gold-embossed title on the spine, and a slipcase. Kaldewey Press 78. — One of ten deluxe copies (total print run of 40) in leather binding, with the etchings in purple with gold-framed texts, as well as a suite of etchings on green Japanese paper; all sheets in the suite are signed and numbered. - Printed on Johannot hand-made paper. - “This is the most celebrated central poem of the *Canzoniere*, in which Petrarch envisioned his beloved Laura sitting beneath a shower of flowers.” (Cat. Bennington, p. 20). Slipcase with a wider light margin; the spine of the chemise is faded. - The accompanying text sheets and the edges have very few small foxing spots.