La mandragola commedia
by MACHIAVELLI, [Niccolò]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
[Verona]: Stampato per I Cento Amici del Libro, 1957. Limited edition of 120 copies. 98pp, [4]. With seven full-page lithographed illustrations in the text by Amerigo Bartoli Natinguerra (1890-1971). Original publisher's limp cream paper boards, lettered in red, glassine wrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, loss to spine of wrapper. Internally immaculate. Signed by Sanminiatelli on the colophon. A mid-twentieth century Veronese printing of Machiavelli's infamous five-act satirical play, initially published in 1524 and first performed in 1526. Of the 120 copies of this edition printed, 100 were issued to subscribers of the Cento Amici del Libro, with each commencing with a printed presentation leaf bearing the name of the recipient (in this instance Emanuele Pesenti), and each signed by Florentine novelist, and board member of the Cento Amici del Libro, Bino Sanminiatelli (1896-1984). OCLC locates copies at only two locations (Newberry and Southern Methodist University); COPAC adds no further. . Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ27820
- Title
- La mandragola commedia
- Author
- MACHIAVELLI, [Niccolò]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stampato per I Cento Amici del Libro
- Place of Publication
- [Verona]
- Date Published
- 1957
- Size
- Quarto
- Keywords
- Plays, Theatre
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
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We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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- Glassine Wrapper
- A thin, partially transparent or translucent paper covering often used ...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....