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[BODONI]. PERINI, Giulio. Academic address delivered at the …
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[BODONI]. PERINI, Giulio. Academic address delivered at the …
See original version (Italian)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[BODONI]. PERINI, Giulio. Academic address delivered at the Royal Academy of Florence at its meeting on 13 April 1786. Parma: Royal Printing House, 1786.
A copy of this elegant Bodoni publication in morocco binding, offered together with a study copy of Borsi’s encomium celebrating the conquest of Minorca, published in Parma and illustrated with engraved vignettes based on designs by Giovanni Contenti and Ennemond Petitot.
4to (300 × 220 mm). Engraved vignette on the title page and engraved headpiece (minor spotting on the endpapers). Contemporary red half-morocco, gilt titles and decorations on the spine, blue paper endpapers, marbled boards (superficial wormtrack on the upper board, touching the morocco). [IN LOT WITH:] TORRE REZZONICO, Antonio Giuseppe della. *Ob minorem, fortissimamque Balearium a Gallis expugnatam Musarum epinicia*. Parma: Borsi, 1757. Folio (420 × 285 mm). 16 engraved vignettes by P. M. and G. Patrini after designs by G. Contenti and Ennemond Petitot (lacking the engraved title-page and plan of the fortress; minor wormtracks on the inner margin of the final leaves). Contemporary marbled boards. (2)
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