Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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CICCARELLI, Antonio (d.1599). Le vite de pontefici di... Rome: Domenico Basa, 1588. 4to. Engraved title, engraved illustration showing Christ presenting the keys to St. Peter and 232 large engraved portraits of popes (occasional browning, old signature erasure with some penetration to verso on title?page). Early vellum, spine wrapped in 18th c.? paper with old spine label (remnants of old ties, front hinge cracked). FIRST EDITION of Ciccarelli?s history of the popes from St. Peter to Sixtus V. Adams C1636.