Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Coronelli, Arme, blasoni, o insegne gentilitie, [Venice, c. 1700], contemporary vellum

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600 - 800 GBP

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CORONELLI, VINCENZO MARIA. Arme, Blasoni o Insegne Gentilitie delle Famiglie Patritie esistenti nella serenissima Republica di Venetia. [Venice, c. 1700]


RARE OCTAVO PRINTING OF THIS HERALDIC CENSUS OF VENETIAN FAMILIES, featuring 63 engravings.


The bookplate suggests that the volume once belonged to the Miani family; it appears identical to their family arms as illustrated on p. 68 of this volume.

Oblong 8vo, 100 x 140 mm. 60 leaves. Engraved title, 3 folding, 58 full-page and 2 half-page engravings. (Worming to first four leaves, 3cm tear without loss to first folding illustration.)


binding: Contemporary vellum over thin boards (105 x 145 mm), spine with 2 half bands. (Binding slightly soiled, upper endpaper wormed and becoming detached.)


provenance: Miani family of Venice, remains of eighteenth-century bookplate (arms illustrated on p. 68 of this volume). acquisition: Purchased in 1986 from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. references: cf. OPAC SBN 021170 (16mo edition)

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