€ 1.000

DE' CONTI, Giusto. La bellamano.

Paris, appresso Mamerto Patisson regio stampatore., 1595.

Duodecimo (128×71mm). [4], 107, [5] leaves. Second title-page at E10r: Raccolto di antiche rime diversi toscani. Oltre a quelle de i X. libri. Woodcut historiated initials and ornaments throughout. Bound in nineteenth-century sheep, spine in compartments with morocco lettering pieces and gilt decorations. Some minor foxing, but a fine copy overall. Provenance: "Stevens, The Gardens, Peckham Rye, Surrey" (ex-libris).

The rare edition of Giusto de' Conti's love poems. Giusto (c. 1390–1449) was probably the illegitimate son of a Roman noble family. Around 1440, he wrote his Petrarchan-style canzoniere, with his love for a woman named Isabeta as the central theme. Gamba notes that copies of this book exist dated 1589, 1590, 1591 and 1595, all however being the same edition, differing only in minor details.

EDIT16 CNCE 13159; Gamba 369: "Assai raro".

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