Natta, Marci Antonii Nattae Astensis De Deo libri XV, Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1560, early vellum

Natta, Marcantonio. Marci Antonii Nattae Astensis De Deo libri XV. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1560

The 1559 edition with date on title reset to 1560.

Folio (304 x 210 mm). Roman type, 57 lines plus headline. collation: *⁴ A-Z⁴ AA-RR⁴ SS⁶: 170 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (A few leaves browned, intermittent and marginal dampstaining and foxing, marginal worming to final leaves.)

binding: Full early vellum (313 x 218 mm), spine with raised bands in four compartments, manuscript title to first, shelfmark to fourth, manuscript title on tail-edge, traces of four pairs of ties. (Vellum abraded, loss to spines, joints cracked, first and last gathering loose.)

provenance: Giovanni Battista Torresini, inscription "Joann. Baptistae Turresini" on title-page (likely Giovanni Battista Torresini, who was living in Cremona in 1587) — Collegio dei SS. Giacomo e Vincenzo, Cremona, inscription "Collegii SS. Jacobii et Vincentii Cremon. MDC" on title-page — Sotheby's London, 8-9 December 1980, lot 112 — Thomas Thorp, London, bought in sale. acquisition: Purchased from Thomas Thorp, St Albans, 1982. references: UCLA 612; Renouard 177/1; Edit16 28064; USTC 844308; Adams N-67