Doni, La libraria, Venice, 1550, nineteenth-century vellum
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
DONI, ANTON FRANCESCO. La libraria del Doni fiorentino. Nella quale sono scritti tutti gl'Autori vulgari con cento discorsi sopra quelli. Tutte le traduttioni fatte dall'altre lingue, nella nostra & una tavola generalmente come si costuma fra librari. Di novo ristampata, correta, & molte cose aggiunte che maneauano. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1550
Second edition of Doni's first bibliography in a vernacular language, THE FIRST SURVEY OF ITALIAN PRINTED BOOKS. For the second edition, Giolito has recomposed the text (42 lines per page, rather than 34 in the first edition), in order to incorporate many additions. It has been suggested that the second edition, although dated 1550, was actually issued in 1551 for the purpose of sale with the Seconda libraria (see next lot).
12mo (128 x 72 mm). Roman and italic type, 42 lines. collation: A-F12: 72 leaves. Woodcut devices to title-page and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials.
binding: Late-nineteenth-century vellum (133 x 81 mm), title up spine in black, blue edges, marbled endpapers. (Some damage to upper pastedown from removal of bookplate.)
acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Bob DeGraaf, Nieuwkoop. references: Mortimer Harvard 163; USTC 827610; Edit16 CNCE 17683; Ricottini Marsili-Libelli, Anton Francesco Doni, scrittore e stampatore; bibliografia delle opere e della critica e annali tipografici (Florence 1960), no. 22; for a bibliographical summary, see Giordano Castellani, "‘Non tutto ma di tutto’: La Libraria del Doni”, La Bibliofilía 114 (2012), pp. 327-352
You May Also Like
