Parisetti, Ad Varium Tolomaeum fratrem theopoeiae, libri sex, Venice, Heirs of Aldo Manuzio, 1550 (1551), eighteenth-century vellum

Parisetti, Lodovico. Iunioris Ludouici Pariseti Regiensis Ad Varium Tolomaeum fratrem theopoeiae, libri sex. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio, 1550 (1551)

8vo (157 x 94 mm). Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-O⁸ P⁴: 116 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, woodcut historiated initials. (Title-page effaced and repaired, lower margin bumped, scattered foxing and marginal browning, one or two closed tears.)

binding: Eighteenth-century vellum (162 x 105 mm), red gilt-lettered label to spine, edges stained blue.

provenance: Stelio Valentini, ex libris "Collezione Aldina di Stelio Valentini" — Christie's Rome, 14 June 2001, lot 318 (part). acquisition: Purchased at Christie's via Michel Wittock. references: UCLA 395; Renouard 148/10; Edit16 53368; USTC 846803