Details
POGGIUS FLORENTINUS, Joannes Franciscus: Poggio BRACCIOLINI (1380- 1459). Historia Fiorentina [Italian], translated by Jacopo Poggio Bracciolini, Venice: Jacobus Rubeus, 8 March 1476, 2° (308 x 205mm.), FIRST EDITION, Rubeus's (Jenson) type 1, 115 of 116 leaves (lacking final blank), 41 lines, initial spaces, some with printed guide letters (light crease marks, first and last leaves faintly browned, light marginal spotting, e4r and a few other leaves a little soiled at margin), 18th-century French olive green morocco, sides with triple gilt fillet, spine in 7 compartments with morocco lettering-pieces and elaborate gilt-tooling, gilt turn-ins and board edges (a little scuffed), g.e. [HC 13172; BMC V 215; Goff P-873]
Provenance
Duc de la Valliere, De Bure, 1767, lot 4388; Count MacCarthy-Reagh, 1779 sale, part of lot 1202; Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, with his bookplate; P. Ashburnham, bookplate; E. Ph. Goldschmidt, morocco booklabel; Major A.L. McLaughlin, Sotheby's Monaco, 7 October, 1980, lot 1929; George Abrams, Sotheby's London, 16 November 1989, lot 99.