Bobaljević Mišetić dit Glušac, Sabo. Rime amorose, e pastorali, et satire del mag. Savino de Bobali Sordo, gentil'huomo Raguseo. Venice: Aldo II Manuzio, 1589

The Croatian poet Sabo Bobaljević Mišetić (1529/30-1585) was one of a notable circle of poets and writers centered in Ragusa (Dubrovnik). This work is one of several printed by Aldo the younger♕ with links to that city, where his brother Girolamo had died in 1559 aged 17, having been sent there the previous year by his father for health reasons.

4to (204 x 144 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: *⁴ A-Y⁴: 92 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on t𓃲itle-page, first word of title in woodcut cartouche, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials, medallion portrait of Boba𒁏ljević on *4 verso, list of books for sale on verso of final leaf. (Lightly stained.)

binding: Modern vellum (211 x🍌 155 mm), red morocco lettering-piece to spine, new endpapers.

provenance: Alexander, Graf Hübner (bookplate). acquisition: Purchased from Hesketh & Ward, London, 2000. references: UCLA 986; Edit16 6208; Renouard 243/12