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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 177

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Commentarii... Tradotti di latino in volgar lingua per Agostino Ortica, [Venice, Nicolo Zoppino], 1530

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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Commentarii... Tradotti di latino in volgar lingua per Agostino Ortica, title printed in red and black with woodcut border, woodcut illustrations in the text, full-page printer's device at end, lacks 6 preliminary leaves (*3-8), some spotting to opening leaves, rebound in early sixteenth century dark morocco gilt over boards, possibly by the Sanvito Binder, sides with double gilt fillet enclosing a 'guilloche' border of linked S-tools, a wider border composed of a lyre-shaped tool, a hexagonal centre panel with rossett centre-piece formed by impressions of a quarter-segment classical acanthus tool with a large free-hand-bud tool at top and bottom, slightly rubbed, preserved in black morocco-backed solander box by James Brockman, 8vo (145 x 102mm.), [Venice, Nicolo Zoppino], 1530

Footnotes

The binding, the decorations for which can be associated with the Roman "Sanvito Binder" (for comparison see Harley Ms 2692, British Library), is a later addition to the book.

Provenance: Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921), of Franche Hall, Worcestershire, bookplate; Gerald Tomkinson, his sale 31 May 1960, lot 230, catalogue description ("... cut black morocco Venetian binding"), loosely inserted; K.J. Hewett, book label inside lower cover.

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