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Speroni, Sperone

Speeches by Mr. Speron Speroni, doctor and knight of Padua. Newly brought to light., 1596

Estimate

€ 130 - 230

Sold

€ 168

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Information

220x150 mm
Venice, at Ruberto Meietti, 1596. In-4°, contemporary binding in soft parchment with six raised bands, handwritten title on the spine. Woodcut initial and frieze. Meietti publisher's mark woodcut on the front. (in a figurative frame, two roosters, one pecking at corn kernels, in the center a plant with ears of corn; motto: non comedetis fruges mendacii) and another mark of G. Alberti (in a figurative frame: the Sibyl, a woman with an open book in her hands; at the bottom: Sibylla.) at the end of f. 2D4v. Slight traces of use on the binding. Presence of damp stains in the lower part of numerous leaves, mostly at the beginning of the work and minimally on the final ones.

Specialist Notes

First and only edition of this collection of Sperone Speroni's orations, edited by I. Conti, whose name appears in the preface to c. πA3r.

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