Auction 77
ONLINE AUCTION: PRINTED BOOKS, HOLY LAND MAPS, POSTERS, & JEWISH GRAPHIC ART
Jan 18, 2019
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LOT 35:
FIORENTINO, GIOVANNI.
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Sold for: $75
Start price:
$
10
Estimated price:
$300 - $500
Auction house commission:
25%
VAT: On commission only
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Il Pecorone.
“First edition” (see below). Woodcut device at title-page and at colophon.
ff. 227. Lightly foxed. Later full vellum. 8vo.
“Milan: Giovanni Antonio de gli Antoni 1554”
This is the famous counterfeit of the first edition, printed in Lucca in the 1740’s. The original was published in 1558 and was a source for Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
