Pontano, Meteorum, Florence, Filippo I Giunta, 1514, contemporary Florentine (?) black morocco

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano. Quae in hoc enchyridio contineantur. Ioannis Iouiani Pontani Vrania seu de stellis libri quinque. Meteorum. Liber unus. De hortis Hesperidum. Libri duo. Eiusdem pompae septem, quib. titulus est Lepidina, necnon Meliseus, Maeon, Acon, carmina pastoralia. In calce uero index est eorum, quae in toto opere habeantur. Florence: Filippo I Giunta, June 1514

8vo (153 x 92 mm). Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-z⁸ &⁴: 188 leaves. Woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device on final verso. (Restoration to first four leaves, foxing and dampstaining.)

binding: Contemporary black morocco (158 x 105 mm), possibly Florentine, blind tooled with border of repeated knotwork, panel in a diapered pattern, traces of two pairs of ties, spine with raised bands in three compartments, each with lozenge tools. (Rebacked preserving original spine and restored, endleaves renewed.)

provenance: Inscription to title (struck through). acquisition: Purchased from Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Milan, 2000. references: Renouard XXXVII/51 (col. 1); Edit16 28730, USTC 850319; Decia & Delfiol p. 83, no. 51 (vol. I)