Tebaldeo, Opere, Venice, 1503, contemporary Italian classical medallion binding, brown morocco over wooden boards

4to (218 x 159 mm). collation: A-L⁴: 44 leaves. Title-page with woodcut border and woodcut device, a few marginal annotations in an early modern hand. (Some dampstaining, mostly marginal, and slight marginal worming from H1 to end of textblock, not affecting text.)

binding: Italian classical medallion binding (223 x 166 mm), possibly Paduan, c. 1505, brown morocco over wooden boards, multiple blind fillets around sides, inner rectangle frame containing repeated blind knotwork tool flanked by multiple blind fillets, mitres to outer corners, blind rosettes in open space between frames, circular punch at inner corners, in centre of upper cover a medallion portrait of Roman emperor Galba laureate, draped bust to right, lettered “IMP SER GALBA AVG TR P” beaded border, round 34 mm, taken from a sestertius of Galba, in centre of lower cover portrait medallion of Vespasian, laureate, draped bust to right lettered “CAESAR(?) VESPASIAN AVG PM TP PP COS III”, taken from a sesterius of Vespasian, round 30 mm, above and below each medallion an ornate lozenge with circle punches at each outer angle, spine with three bands undecorated, plain edges. (Endleaves renewed.)

provenance: Giuseppe Cavalieri (1834-1918), Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque de M. Giuseppe Cavalieri à Ferrara

(Florence 1908), p. 439, no. 1683—Libreria Ulrich Hoepli catalogue,

Cento Libri Preziosi (1922), item no. 95—Baptiste Galanti, Paris (cited in De Marinis I, no. 448). acquisition: Purchased in 2012 from Pregliasco/Philobiblon, New York. references: USTC 764124 (listing Cambridge University Library copy only); Edit16 CNCE 76129 (locating no copies in Italy); De Marinis I, no. 448, pl. LXXXI