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FINANCIAL ETHICS – Contrasto del denaro e del homo. [Rome: Eucharius Silber, c.1497].
Unique copy of the earliest surviving edition of a text, popular in the early 16th century, debating the good/evil effects of money. It was translated into French under the title Debat de l'homme et l'argent. This copy was identified by Tamaro de Marinis in Appunti e Ricerche bibliographe (Milan, 1938), p.13, comparing it with a Florentine edition of c.1515 in the Bibliotheca Colombina cat. II, p.181, using the same woodcut. GW 7461 records a Bologna edition of c.1500. GW 0746020N; Sander 214 bis; De Marinis 12 (& Tav. VIII-IX); ISTC ic00872700.
Quarto (200 x 140mm). 4 leaves, woodcut on a1 depicting two merchants arguing while surrounded by bags of gold (corner torn from last leaf and repaired, not affecting text, 10mm marginal tear in first leaf without loss). Modern calf-backed boards. Provenance: sold Christie's, 20 June 1990, lot 54.
Unique copy of the earliest surviving edition of a text, popular in the early 16th century, debating the good/evil effects of money. It was translated into French under the title Debat de l'homme et l'argent. This copy was identified by Tamaro de Marinis in Appunti e Ricerche bibliographe (Milan, 1938), p.13, comparing it with a Florentine edition of c.1515 in the Bibliotheca Colombina cat. II, p.181, using the same woodcut. GW 7461 records a Bologna edition of c.1500. GW 0746020N; Sander 214 bis; De Marinis 12 (& Tav. VIII-IX); ISTC ic00872700.
Quarto (200 x 140mm). 4 leaves, woodcut on a1 depicting two merchants arguing while surrounded by bags of gold (corner torn from last leaf and repaired, not affecting text, 10mm marginal tear in first leaf without loss). Modern calf-backed boards. Provenance: sold Christie's, 20 June 1990, lot 54.
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