Facetia Erotica
by Poggio Fiorentino
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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A very good example.
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Privately Printed., 1930.. A very good example.
. Edition: Limited Edition, numbered 710., Binding: contemporary full red cloth over board, title in gilt on upper board and flat spine, bottom edges uncut.
, Notes: Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (1380 – 1459), usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early Renaissance humanist. He was responsible for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries. His most celebrated finds are De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius, De architectura by Vitruvius, lost orations by Cicero such as Pro Sexto Roscio, Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria, Statius' Silvae, and Silius Italicus's Punica, as well as works by several minor authors such as Frontinus' De aquaeductu, Ammianus Marcellinus, Nonius Marcellus, Probus, Flavius Caper, and Eutyches., Size: Small 8vo., , Category: Book Erotica; Book Modern
. Edition: Limited Edition, numbered 710., Binding: contemporary full red cloth over board, title in gilt on upper board and flat spine, bottom edges uncut.
, Notes: Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (1380 – 1459), usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early Renaissance humanist. He was responsible for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries. His most celebrated finds are De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius, De architectura by Vitruvius, lost orations by Cicero such as Pro Sexto Roscio, Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria, Statius' Silvae, and Silius Italicus's Punica, as well as works by several minor authors such as Frontinus' De aquaeductu, Ammianus Marcellinus, Nonius Marcellus, Probus, Flavius Caper, and Eutyches., Size: Small 8vo., , Category: Book Erotica; Book Modern
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- Bookseller
- Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B6271
- Title
- Facetia Erotica
- Author
- Poggio Fiorentino
- Book Condition
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Used -
A very good example.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately Printed.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930.
- Keywords
- Book Erotica; Book Modern
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