CARACCIOLO (Roberto). Quadragesimale of peccatis.... - Lot 44 - Ader

CARACCIOLO (Roberto). Quadragesimale of peccatis. Venice: Andrea Torresano, September 27, 1488. - In-4, 212 x 155: 191 ff., (1 f. white) [sig. a-z8 2 (tumbled)8]; car. goth. two columns of 49 lines. Cold-stamped brown calf on wooden ais, first plate decorated with a roulette wheel with a deer hunting scene framed in the centre with a composition of triple straight and oblique fillets and two castors with braided bands; second plate decorated in the same spirit but with a roulette wheel of foliage framed on the edges and 3 castors with braided bands in the centre, traces of an old clasp, spine ribbed, smooth edges (contemporary binding). BMC, V, p. 309. - Hain, *4439. - Pellechet, 3258: Beautiful Venetian incunabulum edition, printed in red and black Gothic letters by Andrea Torresano (1451-1529 ) This is a collection of sermons by the famous Franciscan preacher Roberto Caracciolo (1425?-1495), which he composed for didactic purposes, to serve as a model for other preachers . From 1472 onwards, several series were published, including the one entitled Quadragesimale de peccatis, which was first printed under this title in 1476. This Venetian edition consists of 59 sermons and ends with a table preceded by an epistle to Cardinal Giovanni d'Aragona (1456-1485). It was printed by Andrea Torresano, a native of Asola, who was active in Venice from 1479 to 1529. Successor to Nicholas Jeanson, he was the father-in-law of Aldus the Elder, with whom he was associated from 1506 to 1515. After the death of his son-in-law, he took over the management of the printing works with his sons Franciscus and Fridericus. A precious complete copy, including the first and last white leaf, rubbed in red, preserved in its first binding with an unusual hunting frame on the first cover, depicting a scene of deer hunting. It is clearly not a Venetian binding, but rather a German one. The Nancy li