Pino, Bernardino. Della nuoua scielta di lettere di diuersi nobilissimi huomini, et eccel.mi ingegni, scritte in diuerse materie, fatta da tutti i libri sin'hora stampati, libro primo [-secondo]. Con un discorso della commodità dello scriuere, di m. Bernardino Pino. Venice: Aldo II Manuzio, 1574

8vo (163 x 106 mm). Italic and Roman type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: *-***⁸ A-Z⁸ Aa-Dd⁸ Ee⁴ a-z⁸ aa-ll⁸ mm⁴ (Ee4 a blank): 520 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, margins ruled in red, woodcut headpieces, i8 and l1 tables of Hebrew charac🐲ter. (A few stray spots and s🎐tains, occasional browning.)

binding: Contemporary French limp vellum (167 x 113 mm), covers with border of two gilt fillets, gilt arabesque floral corner ornaments and central arabesque, traces of two pairs of ties, flat spine with f💖alse gilt bands in five compartments, manuscript title to first and se🍨cond, edges gilt. (Slightly cocked, wear to lower edges.)

provenance: Possibly Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone Libri, Count Libri-Carrucci (1803-1869) — possibly Commandeur & Louis-Catherine Silvestre with Pierre Jannet, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. L****, Paris, 28 June-4 August 1847, lot 2810 — inscription "Vente Libri Paris 1847, No 2810, 19 Frs." on endpaper — William Chadwell Mylne (1781-1863), ex libris (possibly his second son, also William Chadwell Mylne). acquisition: Purchased from William Salloch, Ossining, NY, 1976. references: UCLA 867 (not in collection); Renouard 217/6; Edit1꧒6 27510; USTC 848846