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February 1495/96
BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547, Cardinal 1539). De Aetna. Super-chancery 4° (209 x 150mm). Collation: A-C8 D6 (A1r drop-title Petri Bembi De Aetna ad Angelum Chabrielem liber, incipit: Factum a nobis pueris est, D6v colophon Impressum Venetiis in aedibus Aldi Romani mense Februario anno .M.VD). 30 leaves. Roman type 2:114 cut by Francesco Griffo. 22 lines. Inner forme of outermost sheet in quire B in first state without stop-press correction of turned u
BINDING: 18th or 19th-century vellum boards. PROVENANCE: Nine manuscript corrections made in the Aldine shop (of 15 identified by Bühler); paragraph-mark in blue-brown ink (rubbed) at beginning of text.
FIRST EDITION of Bembo's account of Mount Etna in the form of a dialogue with his father. ALDUS'S FIRST LATIN PUBLICATION. The author dedicated it to his Venetian friend Agnolo Gabriele, with whom he had climbed the volcano. They had studied Greek with Const. Lascaris at Messina and had brought Aldus the aged master's annotated copy of his own grammar (see lot 1). Called "the first modern book" by Stanley Morison, De Aetna is arguably THE PUREST EXAMPLE OF RENAISSANCE TYPOGRAPHY. It displayed for the first time the first roman type cut exclusively for Aldus by Griffo, which may well be the most influential design in the history of typography, inspiring Garamond and Granjon in the 16th century and Morison in our own ("Bembo"). IN EXTREMELY FINE, LARGE AND FRESH CONDITION. No copy has appeared at auction since the Rylands sale in 1988. HC *2765; GW 3810; BMC V, 554; Goff B-304; IGI 1448; Klebs 169.1; Lowry p. 135; Murphy 6; Sansoviniana 9; Laurenziana 6; In Praise p. 43: R 7:4
BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547, Cardinal 1539). De Aetna. Super-chancery 4° (209 x 150mm). Collation: A-C8 D6 (A1r drop-title Petri Bembi De Aetna ad Angelum Chabrielem liber, incipit: Factum a nobis pueris est, D6v colophon Impressum Venetiis in aedibus Aldi Romani mense Februario anno .M.VD). 30 leaves. Roman type 2:114 cut by Francesco Griffo. 22 lines. Inner forme of outermost sheet in quire B in first state without stop-press correction of turned u
BINDING: 18th or 19th-century vellum boards. PROVENANCE: Nine manuscript corrections made in the Aldine shop (of 15 identified by Bühler); paragraph-mark in blue-brown ink (rubbed) at beginning of text.
FIRST EDITION of Bembo's account of Mount Etna in the form of a dialogue with his father. ALDUS'S FIRST LATIN PUBLICATION. The author dedicated it to his Venetian friend Agnolo Gabriele, with whom he had climbed the volcano. They had studied Greek with Const. Lascaris at Messina and had brought Aldus the aged master's annotated copy of his own grammar (see lot 1). Called "the first modern book" by Stanley Morison, De Aetna is arguably THE PUREST EXAMPLE OF RENAISSANCE TYPOGRAPHY. It displayed for the first time the first roman type cut exclusively for Aldus by Griffo, which may well be the most influential design in the history of typography, inspiring Garamond and Granjon in the 16th century and Morison in our own ("Bembo"). IN EXTREMELY FINE, LARGE AND FRESH CONDITION. No copy has appeared at auction since the Rylands sale in 1988. HC *2765; GW 3810; BMC V, 554; Goff B-304; IGI 1448; Klebs 169.1; Lowry p. 135; Murphy 6; Sansoviniana 9; Laurenziana 6; In Praise p. 43: R 7:4