Author: OVIDIUS. DOLCE, Lodovico.
Title: Le trasformationi.
Description: Venetia, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratelli, 1553. L-8vo. (22x14, 9 cm.). [xii], 319, (1 errata & 1 large printer's device) pp. With woodcut title-page, large woodcut initials, woodcut mappa mundi in the text, and 94 (some repeated) woodcut illustrations in the text (each measuring between 5, 6x7, 8 and 6, 2x9 cm.); and large printer's device at the rear. 19th-Century green quarter morocco. (bottom margin slightly soiled and thumbed; some sporadic age-toning, and a few marginal small stains; page 37/38 repaired in upper margin and last four leaves repaired with loss of a few letters; last page with printer's device repaired and doubled with loss of some letters; bookplate of G.Fumach on upper pastedown) - A good copy. ¶ With dedication by Lodovico Dolce to Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, bishop of Arras, dated the first of May 1553; and privilege by pope Julius III, by emperor Charles V (to whom the whole work is dedicated), Cosmo de Medici, Henry III of France, the Signoria of Venice and the duke of Ferrara. The mappa mundi, showing i.a. the Straits of Magellan and North-America with Florida, named Nueva Hispania, is accompanied by a dedicatory poem by Pietro Aretino to Charles V. ¶ First edition of his sumptuous publication: "vom Verlag seit Jahren als grosses literarischen Ereignis angekündigt (..) und endlich im Mai 1553 in grosser Aufmachung erschienen." (Guthmüller). Adams O508. Duplessis, Essai bibliographique sur les différentes éditions des oeuvres d'Ovide ornées de planches, no.89: "Frontispice gravé en bois et 94 planches d'un tres bon goût et exécutées tres finement. Elles ne portent aucune marque." Guthmüller, "Bild und Text in Lodovico Dolces Trasformationi", points out that the Venetian architect Giovanni Antonio Rusconi is the illustrator. Henkel, "Illustrierte Ausgaben von Ovids Metamorphosen": "gehört durch die künstlerische Reife und die technische Meisterschaft ihrer Illustrationen mit zu den anziehendsten Ausgaben, die wir überhaupt besitzen. (..) Der Illustrator des Ovid von 1553 ist ein selbstständiger Künstler, der sich in seinen Kompositionen unabhängig von seinen Vorgängern zeigt."(S.82-83); Essling, Nr. 246; Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 95: "an unusual small world map appears in the text, a combination of Gastaldi and Macrobius." Mortimer (Italian), 342; Brunet, II, 789: "Cette édition est celle qu'on préfère."
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Title: Le trasformationi.
Description: Venetia, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratelli, 1553. L-8vo. (22x14, 9 cm.). [xii], 319, (1 errata & 1 large printer's device) pp. With woodcut title-page, large woodcut initials, woodcut mappa mundi in the text, and 94 (some repeated) woodcut illustrations in the text (each measuring between 5, 6x7, 8 and 6, 2x9 cm.); and large printer's device at the rear. 19th-Century green quarter morocco. (bottom margin slightly soiled and thumbed; some sporadic age-toning, and a few marginal small stains; page 37/38 repaired in upper margin and last four leaves repaired with loss of a few letters; last page with printer's device repaired and doubled with loss of some letters; bookplate of G.Fumach on upper pastedown) - A good copy. ¶ With dedication by Lodovico Dolce to Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, bishop of Arras, dated the first of May 1553; and privilege by pope Julius III, by emperor Charles V (to whom the whole work is dedicated), Cosmo de Medici, Henry III of France, the Signoria of Venice and the duke of Ferrara. The mappa mundi, showing i.a. the Straits of Magellan and North-America with Florida, named Nueva Hispania, is accompanied by a dedicatory poem by Pietro Aretino to Charles V. ¶ First edition of his sumptuous publication: "vom Verlag seit Jahren als grosses literarischen Ereignis angekündigt (..) und endlich im Mai 1553 in grosser Aufmachung erschienen." (Guthmüller). Adams O508. Duplessis, Essai bibliographique sur les différentes éditions des oeuvres d'Ovide ornées de planches, no.89: "Frontispice gravé en bois et 94 planches d'un tres bon goût et exécutées tres finement. Elles ne portent aucune marque." Guthmüller, "Bild und Text in Lodovico Dolces Trasformationi", points out that the Venetian architect Giovanni Antonio Rusconi is the illustrator. Henkel, "Illustrierte Ausgaben von Ovids Metamorphosen": "gehört durch die künstlerische Reife und die technische Meisterschaft ihrer Illustrationen mit zu den anziehendsten Ausgaben, die wir überhaupt besitzen. (..) Der Illustrator des Ovid von 1553 ist ein selbstständiger Künstler, der sich in seinen Kompositionen unabhängig von seinen Vorgängern zeigt."(S.82-83); Essling, Nr. 246; Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 95: "an unusual small world map appears in the text, a combination of Gastaldi and Macrobius." Mortimer (Italian), 342; Brunet, II, 789: "Cette édition est celle qu'on préfère."
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Price: EUR 2400.00 = appr. US$ 2608.43 Seller: Antiquariaat Brinkman
- Book number: 142840
- Book number: 142840
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