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Libri Antichi e Rari (433 Books and Works on Paper at Forum Auctions)
March 25, 2017
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433 Lots. Lot 27 is the rare first edition of Fabrizio Caroso’s Il Ballarino, (published in Venice by Francesco Ziletti), one of the most important early treatises on dance (est. € 4.000-8.000). Lot 39 is a first edition of Le Antichita Di Ercolano Esposte. Commissioned by Charles III of Naples to catalogue the magnificent art discovered at Herculaneum between 1738 and 1761, this lavish production played an important role in the development of Neo-Classicism in Europe. Other highlights include:
Lot 53. Houel Jean. Voyage Pittoresque des Isles de Sicile, Malte et de Lipari … A Paris: De l’Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1782. (Est. €15,000-30,000.)
Lot 58. Sacrobosco Ioannes. Sphaera mundi. Add: Georgius Purbachius: Theoricae … a. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, October 4, 1490.(Est. € 3,000-6,000.)
Lot 59. Hore beate Marie virginis secundum usu Parisiensem…Imprime a Paris: par Jean Barbier et Guillaume le Rouge, 1509. (Est. €5,000 – 10,000)
Lot 87. No Saint-Jean Claude Richard (de). Voyage pittoresque description ou des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicilies … A Paris: [De l’Imprimerie de Clousier, rue de Sorbonne], 1781-1786.(Est. € 8.000-15.000.)
Lot 342. Appianus Alexandrinus. Romanarum historiarum [graece]. Paris: Charles Estienne, 1551. (Est. € 3.000–6.000.)