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INCUNABLE.-DANTE.

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INCUNABLE.-DANTE.



Comento di Christophoro Landino sopra la comedia di Danthe alighieri poeta fiorentino. S.l.n.a. [to the colophon]: Venice, Petro Cremonese dito Veronese, 18 November 1491. In-folio, cold stamped brown calf, set of crossed castors and fillets drawing a central panel, metal clasps, spine decorated, untrimmed (Italian binding of the period). GW, 7970-HC, 5950-Pellechet, 4118-Goff, D-33-Essling, No. 532. remarkable incunabulum edition of dante, printed in Roman characters and illustrated with 100 woodwinds, enlarged copies of the edition published in Venice in March 1493 by Benali and Codeca.



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Spine redone and some restorations to the binding, missing fasteners, lining and renewed endpapers.



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