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PONTANO, GIOVANNI GIOVIANO.
Amorum libri II
[
and other texts]. 170,
[2]
leaves *
Opera.
255, [1]
leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one, each with final leaf with
Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 163x98 mm, contemporary sheep, spine ends damaged, cover
corners worn through, ties lacking; marginal worming at beginning and end not affecting
text, light soiling and stains on first title, rear free endpaper lacking; gilt edges, gauffered
with ornamental bands across corners and fore edges; cloth folding case. Early signature of
Marco Strata on front free endpaper.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, February 1518; 1513)
[2,000/3,000]
ONLY ALDINE EDITION
and second Aldine edition, respectively, of 2 collections of verse by the
most prominent Neapolitan humanist of his time (1426-1503), the former dealing with love
and the latter with astrology, meteorology, pomology, and miscellaneous subjects. Renouard,
pages 85(10), 63(7); New UCLA 165, 109.
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PRIAPEIA.)
Diversorum veterum poetarum in Priapum lusus.
79, [1]
leaves, including final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 153x92 mm, 18th-century
French calf gilt, spine ends chipped; contents clean.
(
Venice: Heirs of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, March), 1534
[1,500/2,500]
Second Aldine edition of a collection of poems to the tumescent fertility god Priapus, after the
first Aldine of 1517. “The subjects are mainly the shameful chastisements awaiting thieves, the
phallus of the god, the offerings presented to him. Clever in versification, lively and sometimes
witty in style, they are, with rare exceptions, marked by extreme obscenity” (OCD). Renouard,
page 110(1); New UCLA 268. From the collections of the jurist Claude Du Puy (1545-
94),
with his signature on title (“Claudii Puteani”); the Bibliothèque du Roi, with its stamp
and duplicate stamp; the classical scholar Henry Drury (1778-1841), with his signed collation
note dated 1817; William Horatio Crawford (1812-88), with his armorial bookplate; and the
historian Frederick York Powell (1850-1904), with his signature dated 1900.
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