La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri coi disegni di Sandro Botticelli.

Folio (388 × 278 mm). [118] leaves. Eighty-six illustrations in black and white, after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli (24 for the Inferno, 32 for the Purgatorio, 30 for the Paradiso). Large headings and 100 decorated initials, executed by Bruno Rollitz and printed in red. Shoulder notes printed in red. Contemporary blue morocco. Spine with five double raised bands, upper edge gilt, the others uncut. An immaculate copy, in a cloth slipcase.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

A magnificent copy of this deluxe edition of the Commedia, limited to 265 copies (this is no. 89), superbly printed in red and black, on hand-made paper Hahnemühle. With eighty-six woodcut facsimiles of Sandro Botticelli's drawings, from the famous codex Hamilton preserved in the Staatliche Museen in Berlin: the most ambitious achievement of the celebrated Officina Serpentis. The text of Dante's poem, printed in gothic type, was edited by Karl Weber.