[BOCCACCIO, Giovanni]. Complainte tres piteuse de Flammette ...

[BOCCACCIO, Giovanni]. Complainte tres piteuse de Flammette a son amy Pamphile. Translatee Ditalien en vulgaire Francoys. Paris: Antoine Bonnemère for Jean Longis and the widow of Jean Saint-Denis, 1532, title in red and black with woodcut vignette, woodcut decorated initials and 2 further vignettes, late C19th crimson morocco, gilt-lettered to spine, joints split, upper cover detached, a.e.g., sm. 8vo. [An exceptionally rare early French edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta in translation, appearing just one year after the 1531 first Paris edition - the latter recorded by USTC and BP16 in only a single defective copy (NYPL). Complete with the unfoliated Table leaf and lacking only the terminal blank; Bonnemère's colophon appears on the recto of the final foliated leaf (fol. xciiij). Only three institutional copies of the present 1532 privileged Paris edition are recorded by USTC and BP16 (Paris, Copenhagen, and Wolfenbüttel), and we have been unable to trace any copies in modern auction records. USTC 34500; BP16 106875.]

Estimate:£800

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