Live auction - Lot 689
[Mythology]
La geneologia de gli dei gentili [...]. Con la spositione de sensi allegorici delle favole, & con la dichiaratione dell'historie appartenenti a detta materia. Tradotta per M. Gioseppe Betussi da Bassano.
Venice, F. & A. Zoppini, 1581
Hammer price: €
180
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Lot description
4to: [8]-263-[1 bl.] ff. (occ. marg. soiling, some lower corners missing, sm. marg. dampstaining, some sl. foxing, tiny wormtrack to some innner margins).
Contemp. vellum, flat spine, blue edges.
Major work on classical mythology by the Italian humanist Boccaccio (1313-1375), translated by the poet G. Betussi (1520-1575). Text in italics; printer's mark on title.
Ref. EDIT16 6370. - Adams B-2175 A. - Cp. STC Italy (other ed.).
Prov. H. Van Havre (arm. bookpl.).
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