The Duchy of Urbino

ca. 1710, Pesaro?
Manuscript on paper
Duchy of Urbino
$8,000

3 volumes, small folio (200 x 282 mm). Manuscript on paper in various hands. Provenance: all three volumes bear the bookplate of Frederick North, prime minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. In the 19th century, the books were purchased by the British book collector Thomas Phillipps and are listed in the Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomæ Phillipps, Bart., A. D. 1837. All have a small, numbered label at the foot of the spine showing the catalogue number. The three books are bracketed together in Phillipps’ catalogue as “Scritture della Casa Feltria.