Pontano, Opera, [Venice?, Gregorio di Gregori? ca. 1514-1520], eighteenth-century green French crushed morocco

Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano. Pontani Opera. Vrania, siue de stellis libri quinque. Meteororum liber unus. De hortis hesperidum libri duo. Lepidina siue pastorales pompae septem. Item Meliseus Maeon Acon. Hendecasyllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim. Quae uero in toto opere habeantur in indice, qui in calce est, licet uidere. [Venice?: Gregorio di Gregori? ca. 1514-1520]

This present counterfeit edition does not include the errata present in the 1513 Aldine edition.

8vo (155 x 93 mm). Italic and Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-z⁸ aa-ii⁸: 256 leaves. Instance of early marginalia. (Scattered spotting and staining.)

binding: Eighteenth-century green French crushed morocco (162 x 105 mm), covers with border of three gilt fillets, joined at corners by gilt rosettes, flat spine with false bands in six compartments, second gilt-lettered, others with central gilt flower, all edges stained red and gilt, marbled endleaves. (Minor staining and rubbing.)

provenance: Forum Auctions, London, 22 September 2016, lot 312 (£1,700). acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books Ltd, London, 2017. references: Cf. Renouard 318/4; Edit16 48450; USTC 850323