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mei/00206775 Inc. e. I9.14.
[00206775]
Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: Inc. e. I9.14.
ISTC No.ip01116000
AuthorPulci, Luca
TitlePistole in rima al Lorenzo de' Medici
Imprint[Florence : Bartolommeo di Libri, about 1495]
Provenance nameGilbert, Thomas A. (d. before 20 Oct. 1938), - 1938 14 Overton Road, London, SW; according to the auction catalogue (p. 32), `this collection was exhibited some years ago at the Cuming Museum, Southwark, to illustrate the History of Printing'; sale, A Catalogue of Books from Various Sources including... the Library of 15th–18th Century Books of the late T. A. Gilbert, Esq. (London: Hodgson and Co., 20 Oct. 1938).
NoteProvenance: Thomas A. Gilbert (†before 20 Oct. 1923); pencil note inside front cover: 'Hodgson 20 Oct 38 T A Gilbert Sale'; his sale (London: Hodgson & Co., 20 Oct. 1938), lot 572 (including also H 8343 and another volume not specified).
Provenance
1901 -
2000
Time period1901 - 2000
Provenance namePottesman, Solomon (1904-1978), 1904 - 1978 see Alan G. Thomas, `Solomon Pottesman', Book Collector, 28 (1979), 545-53, repr. in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of `The Book Collector' (London, 2003), 137-43; sale (London: Sotheby, Parke, Bernet, 15 Oct. 1979).
Provenance nameGilbert, Thomas A. (d. before 20 Oct. 1938), - 1938 14 Overton Road, London, SW; according to the auction catalogue (p. 32), `this collection was exhibited some years ago at the Cuming Museum, Southwark, to illustrate the History of Printing'; sale, A Catalogue of Books from Various Sources including... the Library of 15th–18th Century Books of the late T. A. Gilbert, Esq. (London: Hodgson and Co., 20 Oct. 1938).
NoteProvenance: Thomas A. Gilbert (†before 20 Oct. 1923); pencil note inside front cover: 'Hodgson 20 Oct 38 T A Gilbert Sale'; his sale (London: Hodgson & Co., 20 Oct. 1938), lot 572 (including also H 8343 and another volume not specified).
Provenance
1901 -
2000
Time period1901 - 2000
Provenance namePottesman, Solomon (1904-1978), 1904 - 1978 see Alan G. Thomas, `Solomon Pottesman', Book Collector, 28 (1979), 545-53, repr. in The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of `The Book Collector' (London, 2003), 137-43; sale (London: Sotheby, Parke, Bernet, 15 Oct. 1979).