Author: Alighieri, Dante and Sandro Botticelli
Title: La Divina Commedia Di Dante Alighieri Coi Disegni Di Sandro Botticelli: Cantica Terza
Description: Berlin, Germany, Ex Officina Serpentis, 1925. Hardcover. grey boards w/ black printing. approx 76 unpaginated pgs w/ red, tissue-guard frontispiece & 30 bw woodcuts, many red typographic. Text in Italian. Many unopened pages. Parchment pages remain fairly bright with some darkening to fore-edges and instances of speckled foxing. "Dante's Divina commedia was completed in the years 1921 to 1925 as a hand press print of the Officina Serpentis in 265 copies. The text was revised according to the latest Dante research by Professor Carl Weber Halle. The hand drawings by Sandro Botticelli were photographically transferred to wood from the surviving leaves of the Codex Hamilton .. photographically transferred to wood."--WorldCat. Good- (boards scuffed, scratched, foxed & darkened; spine missing w/ tattered edges. textblock/spine split; three binding joints holding boards/textblock.) .

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