With a leaf from the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
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Author: De Vinne, Theodore Low
Title: Aldus Pius Manutius. With an essay by Theodore Low De Vinne together with a leaf from the Aldine Hypnertomachia Poliphili printed at Venice in 1499
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Book Club of California
Date Published: 1924
Description:
Author: De Vinne, Theodore Low
Title: Aldus Pius Manutius. With an essay by Theodore Low De Vinne together with a leaf from the Aldine Hypnertomachia Poliphili printed at Venice in 1499
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Book Club of California
Date Published: 1924
Description:
Illustrated with decorative headpieces after wood-cuts in the Aldine Hypnerotomachia, plus an inserted original leaf from the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed at Venice in 1499. (4to) original brown boards backed with black cloth, gilt-lettered spine. No. 180 of 250 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press in hand-set Poliphilus type on Kelmscott paper.
This copy with a leaf of text, without illustration. Other copies had leaves with ornamental borders or woodcuts with the original issue price varying depending on the value of the leaf. GB 67.BCC 22.
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Extremities rubbed; very good.
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With a leaf from the Aldine Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Estimate $400 - $600
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