Auction 487/round/2
BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Sep 22, 2020
Italy
Via Pontaccio 12, 20121 Milano
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Auction 487
22 September 2020
II session - 3.30 pm, from lot 135 to lot 270
Venue: Via Pontaccio 12, Milano
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LOT 187:
VALTURIO, Roberto (1405-1475) - De re militari libris XII. Paris: Chrétien Wechel, 1534. A complete copy of ...
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Sold for: €1,900
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1,900
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€2,000 - €3,000
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VALTURIO, Roberto (1405-1475) - De re militari libris XII. Paris: Chrétien Wechel, 1534. A complete copy of the second French edition of this fundamental work on war machines with the fine plates from the 1483 Verona edition. Other copies on the market in recent years usually had conservation issues or were incomplete. Folio (313 x 206mm). Printer's device on title and at end, numerous woodcut illustrations, some full-page, woodcut initials (some spotting, light occasional browning, L3 with small burn-hole, Z3 with small paperflaw, final leaf with removed stamp). Modern vellum. Provenance: some early annotations (sometimes cropped) - Ladisla Reti (bookplate).
