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OUTSTANDING PROVENANCE4to (203x140 mm); 18th-century full calf, panels within a triple fillet in gilt, spine with five raised bands and gilt title on morocco label, marbled endleaves, gilt edges (joints and top of the spine partially restored); 331, (5) pp. With frontispiece, portrait of the Madonna di San Luca and 81 full-page emblems, all engraved by Giovanni Battista Coriolano (1595-1649), Oliviero Gatti (1598-1646) and Agostino Parisini (fl. 1625-1636) after drawings by Florio Macchi and Giovanni Battista Coriolano. Provenance: Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), minister of finances of France under King Louis XIV, also renown for his celebrated library which was sold at Paris in 1728 (his ownership's inscription on the title-page); Richard Heber (1773-1833), English book-collector and founder of the Roxburghe Club of bibliophiles, whose library of 105,000 volumes was sold by auction at London in 1835 (his stamp on the front flyleaf); Beckford Library (pencil note on the front flyleaf, dated Dec.… Read More

AN UNCUT COPY WITH DECKLE EDGES AND CONTEMPORARY CARDBOARDS
8vo (164x106 mm). [12], 371 [i.e. 373], [63] pp. Collation: A-EE8. Repeated in pagination the pp. 163-164. The last leaf is a blank. Colophon at l. EE7r. Printer's device on title page and l. EE7v. Light marginal staining and foxing on a few leaves. Outer margin of the title page soiled. Contemporary cardboards, spine covered with a later colored paper, lettering piece on spine (panels slightly soiled, minor losses to spine). A bit loose, but a very good copy, uncut with deckle edges.
SECOND EDITION of the 'Lives of the Doges" by Pietro Marcello in the translation by Lodovico Domenichi. The first edition of this translation, the only one ever made, was printed by Marcolini in 1557 for Plinio Pietrasanta. Basically, Marcolini's name appears only in this second edition, which differs from the first for small changes in the dedication to Giovanni Priuli and for the addition of some final Latin verses by Bernardo Giorgi.
The first Latin edition… Read More