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PALATINO, Giovanni Battista (ca 1515-ca 1575). Libro nuovo d'imparare a scrivere tutte sorte lettere antiche, et moderne di tutte nationi, con nuove regole, misure, et essempi. Rome: Baldassarre di Francesco Cartolari, 1540.
4o (197 x 132 mm). Title with large woodcut portrait, last leaf with woodcut printer's device, woodcut calligraphy and alphabets. (A few minor marginal reapairs, blank margin of last leaf repaired.) Later vellum. Provenance: acquired from Florimond Tulkens, 1962.
FIRST EDITION. This work includes alphabets in exotic scripts like Hebrew, Arabic and Chaldean. Palatino was one of the great renaissance writing masters, combining calligraphic skill with philosophical-literary pretensions. This is "the last of the three major Italian copy-books of the sixteenth century... Palatino's manual was a more ambitious effort than Arrighi's or Tagliente's... Palatino's models of chancery script are among the handsomest, but are nearly impossible to execute if the writer is a person of modest ability" (Miner, 2000 Years of Calligraphy 65). RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, no other copy of this work has sold at auction in at least 35 years. Bonacini 1328; Brunet IV:314; Sander 5392.
4o (197 x 132 mm). Title with large woodcut portrait, last leaf with woodcut printer's device, woodcut calligraphy and alphabets. (A few minor marginal reapairs, blank margin of last leaf repaired.) Later vellum. Provenance: acquired from Florimond Tulkens, 1962.
FIRST EDITION. This work includes alphabets in exotic scripts like Hebrew, Arabic and Chaldean. Palatino was one of the great renaissance writing masters, combining calligraphic skill with philosophical-literary pretensions. This is "the last of the three major Italian copy-books of the sixteenth century... Palatino's manual was a more ambitious effort than Arrighi's or Tagliente's... Palatino's models of chancery script are among the handsomest, but are nearly impossible to execute if the writer is a person of modest ability" (Miner, 2000 Years of Calligraphy 65). RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, no other copy of this work has sold at auction in at least 35 years. Bonacini 1328; Brunet IV:314; Sander 5392.