Live Auction 3013Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including a selection from the Malcolm S. Forbes Jr. Churchill Collection and Photobooks from the Calle Collection
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Lot 112

LICETI, Fortunio (1577-1657). Hieroglyphia sive Antiqua schemata gemmarum anularium. Padua: Sebastiano Sardi, 1653. 2° (324 x 211mm). Printer's device, full-page portrait, 66 vignettes, and one illustration, all engraved. (Title soiled, top corners waterstained at start, some browning, a few leaves with ink spots.) 20th-century polished calf. PROVENANCE: Bibliothece Regina Cristine (inscription dated 1747).

Closed28 November 2011

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LICETI, Fortunio (1577-1657). Hieroglyphia sive Antiqua schemata gemmarum anularium. Padua: Sebastiano Sardi, 1653. 2° (324 x 211mm). Printer's device, full-page portrait, 66 vignettes, and one illustration, all engraved. (Title soiled, top corners waterstained at start, some browning, a few leaves with ink spots.) 20th-century polished calf. PROVENANCE: Bibliothece Regina Cristine (inscription dated 1747).

FIRST EDITION of Liceti's huge emblem book covering all aspects of contemporary human knowledge. Landwehr Romanic 486.