Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1499

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Medium

bound volume with 172 woodcut illustrations on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 29.2 × 19.5 cm (11 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)
book: 30.6 × 21.5 × 3.3 cm (12 1/16 × 8 7/16 × 1 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Florian Carr Fund

Accession Number

2012.144.1

Artists / Makers

Benedetto Bordon (artist) Italian, 1450 - 1530

Francesco Colonna (author) Italian, 1433 - 1527

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Inscription

1st free endpaper in brown ink: Henry H. Gibbs / Lt Dunstaas / 1866; in pencil: Bought of [Ellis?]; last free endpaper bottom left in graphite: C.P.P.C. 22337

Provenance

(Sotheby's sale, September 6, 1826); purchased by John Bellingham Inglis [London, 1780-1870]. (Ellis, bookseller 1850-1901); purchased 1866 by Henry Hucks Gibbs, first Lord Aldenham, (2 bookplates for Aldenham House in last fly leaf, with an additional inscription); (Sotheby's, sale 1937); purchased by Francis Edwards; purchased by Fritton Hithe, Great Yarmouth, September, 1941. (Martayan Lan Rare Books Inc., New York); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Lan, Martayan