Doni (Antonio Francesco): La Zucca del Doni, [colophon: Venice, per Francesco Marcolini, 1551], 8vo, 3 parts in one, first edition, italic type, architectural title border with figures, 18 woodcut illustrations (title cropped at upper margin slightly affecting border, and with bookplate on verso, light spotting of margins), old vellum, later blue morocco dust-jacket titled in gilt on upper cover. [cf. Brunet II, 812; Mortimer Italian Books I, 164 (Spanish edition)] | Christie's

Lot 79

Doni (Antonio Francesco): La Zucca del Doni, [colophon: Venice, per Francesco Marcolini, 1551], 8vo, 3 parts in one, first edition, italic type, architectural title border with figures, 18 woodcut illustrations (title cropped at upper margin slightly affecting border, and with bookplate on verso, light spotting of margins), old vellum, later blue morocco dust-jacket titled in gilt on upper cover. [cf. Brunet II, 812; Mortimer Italian Books I, 164 (Spanish edition)]

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Doni (Antonio Francesco): La Zucca del Doni, [colophon: Venice, per Francesco Marcolini, 1551], 8vo, 3 parts in one, first edition, italic type, architectural title border with figures, 18 woodcut illustrations (title cropped at upper margin slightly affecting border, and with bookplate on verso, light spotting of margins), old vellum, later blue morocco dust-jacket titled in gilt on upper cover. [cf. Brunet II, 812; Mortimer Italian Books I, 164 (Spanish edition)]

Lot Essay

Fifteen of the woodcuts are from the set of square blocks designed for Marcolini's Sorti of 1540. The three others are the Dante-Petrarca-Boccacio block and the Doni and Buchiello portrait blocks.

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