[BINDINGS & SETS]. SABATINI, Rafael. Works. Boston et al, 1924-1933. LIMITED EDITION of the "Autograph edition," SIGNED. [Bound in to Vol. I:] SABATINI. Autograph manuscript, a page from the manuscript of The Life of Cesare Borgia (1924).
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Lot Description
[BINDINGS & SETS]. SABATINI, Rafael (1875-1950). Works. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924-1933.
29 volumes (of 34, lacking vols. XXX-XXXIV), 8vo (220 x 148 mm). Numerous plates (many in color, many in multiple states). Contemporary half green crushed levant gilt, spines gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others uncut (some spines sunned, some light wear). LIMITED EDITION, number 165 of 750 copies of the "Autograph edition," SIGNED BY SABATINI, who is best known for his romance and adventure novels, such as The Sea Hawk and Scaramouche.
[Bound in to Volume I:] SABATINI. Autograph manuscript, a page from the manuscript of The Life of Cesare Borgia (1924). One full sheet, 8vo, containing approximately 196 words including holograph corrections and emendations, in graphite and ink, ruled in red. Describes, in part, the responses to the murder of the Duke of Gandia from the Consistory on 19 June 1497 (published as pp. [140]-141, the beginning of chapter V of vol. XI in this set). In part: "A greater sorrow than this could not be ours, for we loved him exceedingly, and now we can hold neither the Papacy nor any other thing as of concern. Had we seven Papacies, we would give them all to restore the duke to life."
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