Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Giovio, Le iscrittioni poste sotto le vere imagini de gli huomini famosi, Florence, 1552, later vellum

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500 - 700 GBP

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GIOVIO, PAOLO. Le iscrittioni poste sotto le vere imagini de gli huomini famosi. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1552 (December, 1551)


FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ITALIAN TRANSLATION of Giovio's Elogia, translated by Ippolito Orio of Ferrara.

4to (195 x 130 mm). Roman and italic types, 36 lines plus headline. collation: +6 a–z4 Aa–Hh4: 124 leaves (final leaf blank). Title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials.


binding: Eighteenth-century vellum over pasteboards, leather label, slightly red tinged edges. (Label chipped.)


provenance: Seventeenth-century inscription “Cvs. (?) S. Pauli fr. Aryon ad usum fr. Ioannis Hieronymi Bergon”, possibly Conventus S. Paolo d'Argon, Benedictine convent, Bergamo—Swann Galleries, New York, 24 September 1998, lot 140. acquisition: Purchased in 1999 from Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts, Philadelphia. references: Edit16 CNCE 21183; USTC 833184

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