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Bayeux Enchères

6 - BOCCACCIO

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Estimation

€250 - 450

Sale fees

24%

BOCCACCIO The Decameron by Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, a citizen of Florence. Revised in Rome and amended in accordance with the decrees of the Holy Council of Trent [published subsequently by the same publisher and released the same year] Annotations and Discourses on Certain Passages from the Decameron by Messer Giovanni Boccaccio. In Florence, I. Giunti, 1573, 1 vol. in-4 (16 unnumbered folios—576 pp. [573 pp. marked]—20 unnumbered folios—142 pp. and 8 unnumbered folios); both texts are adorned with numerous initials and two portraits (woodcuts). New edition. Contemporary full old red morocco binding with a simple gold fillet framing the covers; spine ribbed and highlighted with gold fillets; gilt title; copy bearing the coat of arms of Jacques de Bauquemare (1518–1584) stamped on the covers President of the Parliament of Normandy, then President of the Parliament of Paris. Minor scuffs on the binding; the vertical outer margin of the title page is trimmed (without affecting the text); endpapers missing

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Auction details

Antique and modern books, manuscripts, autographs, illustrated books, posters
Saturday, November 21
02:00 PM
14, boulevard Eindhoven
14400 Bayeux, France

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Bayeux Enchères +33 2 31 92 04 47 info@bayeuxencheres.fr
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 25,000 lots published

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