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Giovio, Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium, Basel, 1596, eighteenth-century mottled calf

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July 11, 09:30 AM GMT

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500 - 700 GBP

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GIOVIO, PAOLO. Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium. Basel: Officina Pernea (Konrad von Waldkirch), 1596 [bound with:]


Elogia virorum literis illustrium. Basel: Peter Perna, 1577


These two editions of portraits of no🔯table Italians are often found bound to𝓰gether, as here. The portraits contained within borders are by Tobias Stimmer, and the others are by Christoffel van Sichem.

2 works in one volume, folio (352 x 220 mm). (1) Roman and italic types. collation: ):(4 a–x6 y8: 138 leaves. Title within elaborate woodcut border, half-page woodcut portraits, some within decorative borders throughout the text, woodcut initials. (2) Roman and italic types. collation: π4 a–m6 n4: 80 leaves. Contents as above. (Some browning𝓀, dampstaining,🐻 foxing, and worming.)


binding: Eighteenth-century mottled brown calf (362 x 232 mm), 3 gilt fillets around sides, 6 r🌸aised🔯 bands on spine, compartments outlined by triple gilt fillets, edges slightly speckled in red. (Some rubbing and delamination of surface.)


provenance: "Jac. Lazine (Lative?)”, inscription to foot of title. acquisition: Purchased in 1962 in Paris. references: (1) VD16 G 2067; USTC 683307; (2) VD16 G 2062; USTC ༺683309 (issue without colop🎶hon)

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