[MICHEL-ANGE]. VARCHI, Benedetto - Lot 10

[MICHEL-ANGE]. VARCHI, Benedetto Orazione funerale di M. Benedetto Varchi Fatta, e recitata da Lui pubblicamente nell'essequie di Michelagnolo Buonarroti in Firenze, nella Chiesa di San Lorenzo Florence, Appresso i Giunti, 1564 MICHEL-ANGELO: ONE OF THE TWO FUNERAL ORATIONS DELIVERED BY ONE OF HIS FRIENDS IN FRONT OF HIS CATAFALQUE, IN THE CHURCH OF SAN LORENZO IN FLORENCE. FAIRFAX MURRAY ORIGINAL EDITION In-4 (210 x 145 mm). Woodcut Medici coat of arms printed on title page. Woodcut initials, headbands, tailpieces and typographical mark at colophon. COLLATION: [A]-H4: 32 leaves, [A3v]-H4r paginated 6-63 ENGLISH BINDING SIGNED BY RIVIERE AND SON. Red morocco, gilt and cold-stamped decoration, filleting, gilt fleurons at the corners, ribbed spine, gilt headband. Cloth-covered box PROVENANCE: Charles Fairfax Murray (bookplate) -- Luis Cervera Vera, Spanish architect and historian (1914-1998; bookplate) Fine marginal discharge of binding on endpapers. Upper hinge slightly worn and weakened, corners dulled. Two funeral orations were delivered here, one by Benedetto Varchi (1502-1565), the other by Leonardo Salviati, the twenty-two-year-old who was to deliver Benedetto Varchi's funeral oration a year later. Most public libraries in Europe and the USA hold a copy of Michelangelo's funeral oration by Benedetto Varchi. But only one copy, bound in modern vellum, has been offered for auction on the international market for over thirty years. BIBLIOGRAPHY : USTC 862027 -- EDIT16 28283 -- Cicognara, 2388 -- Brunet, V, 1087 -- Adams, II, V 256