Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Papst Pius II) 
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Histoire de deux amants. Manuscrit latin de 1544 traduit par Louis Gielly orne d'illustrations originales par Maurice Lalau. XII, 121 pp., 2 leaves. With 30 color etchings and numerous color decorative elements, featuring gold leaf applications both within and outside the illustrations. Folio. Loose double leaves in original wrappers, original cardboard covers, and slipcase. Paris, Jules Meynial, 1931.
One of 100 numbered copies of the edition printed on Madagascar paper. Total edition: 113 copies. A magnificently illustrated Art Deco edition—produced in a limited print run—of this prototype of the humanist novella. An early work by the future Pope Pius II, which he later vehemently repudiated. Features one of the artist's finest Art Deco illustrations, created when he was at the height of his creative powers in the early 1930s. – Carteret IV 317: "Très belle publication cotée". Bénézit VI 393. Vollmer III 157. - Slipcase slightly damaged; otherwise a good copy.
1200,- EUR
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