Live auction - Lot 690
[Naples]
Compendio dell'historie del regno di Napoli [...], & nuovamente alla sincerità della lingua volgare ridotto, & tutto emendato da Girolamo Ruscelli [...].
Venice, G.M. Bonelli, 1552
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: 215 ff. (last bl. missing; wormtracks in begin. and end, occ. in text and strengthened to last f., ff. in begin. inverted with 2 ff. loose but complete, spotting to some upper corners in begin. and soiling at end, sl. marg. dampstaining, burning hole in f. 121, errors in foliotation at end).
Contemp. half vellum, later paper on boards, flat spine with ms. label, marbled edges (wormholes and wormtracks, sm. lack of paper on front board, front flyleaf loose).
Edition by the poet and mathematician G. Ruscelli (1500?-1566) of an early history of Naples (1st 1548). By the humanist from Pesaro P. Collenuccio (1444-1504). Printer's mark on title; in italics.
Ref. EDIT16 12779. - STC Italy 189. - Not in Adams (other ed.).