Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: limited to 160 copies bound in boards with vellum spine and corners. a few light smudges to covers. shipping will be extra, please inquire. ; Limited Edition; 9 3/4 x 12 1/4 "
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Description: Off-white boards with gilt lettering on the spine; 29 pp.; richly illustrated. This book is filled with gorgeous color plates! Good (Boards are heavily worn/scuffed/smudged, with red staining at the front and back; textblock edges are toned/foxed/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Wilkins, Ernest Hatch. The Trees of the Genealogia Deorum of Boccaccio. Caxton Club, Chicago, 1923.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Very Good oversized Hardcover, bound in half-vellum with paper boards, in cracked and delicate original glassine dustjacket, housed in Good original grey box. "The Publication Committee of The Caxton Club certifies that this copy is one of an edition of one hundred and sixty copies on paper made by hand at Fabriano, Italy, and that it is printed from type for the subscribers." This copy has obviously spent most of the last eighty years in its box, as it is hardly worn at all. Glassine dustjacket is age-toned, and torn along the spine; box is split at a couple of its joints. Top edge gilt. Text clean & unmarked. 29 pp., plus 24 plates.
Seller: O'Gara and Wilson, Ltd. LLC, Chesterton, IN, U.S.A.
Wilkins, Ernest Hatch. The Trees of the Genealogia Deorum of Boccaccio.. The Caxton Club, 1923.
Price: US$207.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover shows minor wear and rubbing, soiling. Embossed stamp on the title page, pages are clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. Half vellum and tan paper over boards. (Ca. 50pp). 24 full-page plates (as called for; 3 color). Very good. Binding typically slightly soiled, else internally fine. A tight and attractive first edition. Limited to 160 copies. Wilkins studies the many genealogical tables used by Boccaccio in both manuscript and early printed versions of his "Genealogia deorum gentilium," a mythological encyclopedia. All captioned tissue guards present and pristine. A superb copy, with the original Caxton Club prospectus laid in.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
WILKINS, Ernest Hatch. The Trees of the Genealogia Deorum of Boccaccio. Caxton Club, Chicago, 1923.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 21 plates, three of which are in beautiful full color, with printed tissue guards + many fine engraved initials and tables throughout. 29pp. Thin 4to, 1/2 vellum, grey boards; uncut. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1923. Fine but for a beautiful bookplate. A study of the genealogical tables used to decorate Boccaccio's great mythological work, from manuscripts and the early printed editions. One of 160 copies printed on hand-made Fabriano paper.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$764.50 + shipping
Description: FIRST and LIMITED EDITION, one of only 160 copies printed on handmade Fabriano Paper. With 21 plates, three of which are in beautiful full colour, with printed tissue guards. Also with fine engraved ititials and tables throughtout. 4to, publishers original half vellum over buff boards with small vellum corner-pieces. 24pp + plates. A very fine copy, near as pristine. SCARCE, LIMITED TO ONLY 160 COPIES. A study of the genealogical tables used to decorate Boccaccio's great mythological work, from manuscripts and the early printed editions. Genealogia deorum gentilium, known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and Rome, written in Latin prose in circa 1360 by the Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. The first printed edition was in Venice at the early date of 1472. By 1499, no fewer then eight editions had published, attesting to the popularity of the work. Ernest Hatch Wilkins was a respected authority on Italian literature. His teaching career began at Amherst as an instructor of Romance languages from 1900 to 1904, and continued at Harvard, where he taught from 1906 to 1912 and again from 1947 to 1950 as a visiting lecturer on Italian literature. In 1912 he went to the University of Chicago where he was successively Associate Professor and Professor of Romance languages until his move to Oberlin in 1927. From 1923 to 1926 he served the University as Dean of its College of Arts, Literature and Science Wilkins served as Oberlin College's seventh president from 1927 until his retirement in 1946. He authored several respected works on Dante, Petrarch and Papini. He was a corresponding member of the Accademia Della Crusca in Florence and was decorated with the Cavaliere della Corona d'Italia in 1920 for his international promotion of Petrarch and Dante.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.