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PLUTARCH Illustriam virorum vite, Paris, Iodocus Badius Ascensius, 15 July 1520 image 1
PLUTARCH Illustriam virorum vite, Paris, Iodocus Badius Ascensius, 15 July 1520 image 2
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.
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Illustriam virorum vite, Paris, Iodocus Badius Ascensius, 15 July 1520

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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Illustriam virorum vite, edited by Gérard de Verceil, title printed in red and black with historiated woodcut border and central image of a printer's workshop, numerous large criblé woodcut initials, contemporary north Italian blindstamped morocco, covers with a border or fleur-de-lys and ermines, enclosing a repeated Christogram "JHS", gilt morocco spine label, green edges, rubbed at extremities with small loss to head of spine, folio (328 x 215mm.), Paris, Iodocus Badius Ascensius, 15 July 1520

Footnotes

Provenance: Johannes Josephus Rabius, contemporary ownership inscription; Antonius Luepria, of Cuneo, 19 April 1589, both inside lower cover; Johannes Jacob Carante, of Cuneo; Ludovico Ma. Carante, ?eighteenth century inscriptions on title; K.J. Hewett, bookplate. Three of the early owners were from Cuneo, Piedmont in Northen Italy.

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