Commentarii di Lodovico Guicciardini Delle cose piú memorabili seguite in Europa…Libri tre.
GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Commentarii di Lodovico Guicciardini Delle cose piú memorabili seguite in Europa…Libri tre.
Venice: Nicoló Bevilacqua, 1565
4to. 205 x 140 mm. Woodcut printer’s device to title. A very good and clean copy with very occasional minor paperflaws not affecting text Early 17th-century limp vellum, remnants of blue cloth ties. Ink title to spine in contemporary hand, early paper shelfmark labels to head and foot of spine.
Guicciardini (1521-1589) was a Florentine merchant and writer who lived primarily in Antwerp from about 1542 on. His best-known work is a description of the Low Countries published in 1567, an influential account complete with maps. This work is a precursor, a historical underpinning of the subsequent major work divided into three books. The first covers 1529-1544, or the Peace of Cambrai to the Peace of Crépy, the second up to the abdication of Charles V in 1555, and the third until 1560. According to Edit16, the catalogue of Italian 17th-century works, the first edition is Venice in 1564 (printed by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari); this edition was produced the year after, one of two produced in 1565, the other being W. Verwilt’s in Antwerp.
A clean and attractive copy in a near-contemporary binding. Adams G-1535; STC Italian, p.321; Graesse III, 179.
GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Commentarii di Lodovico Guicciardini Delle cose piú memorabili seguite in Europa…Libri tre.
Venice: Nicoló Bevilacqua, 1565
4to. 205 x 140 mm. Woodcut printer’s device to title. A very good and clean copy with very occasional minor paperflaws not affecting text Early 17th-century limp vellum, remnants of blue cloth ties. Ink title to spine in contemporary hand, early paper shelfmark labels to head and foot of spine.
Guicciardini (1521-1589) was a Florentine merchant and writer who lived primarily in Antwerp from about 1542 on. His best-known work is a description of the Low Countries published in 1567, an influential account complete with maps. This work is a precursor, a historical underpinning of the subsequent major work divided into three books. The first covers 1529-1544, or the Peace of Cambrai to the Peace of Crépy, the second up to the abdication of Charles V in 1555, and the third until 1560. According to Edit16, the catalogue of Italian 17th-century works, the first edition is Venice in 1564 (printed by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari); this edition was produced the year after, one of two produced in 1565, the other being W. Verwilt’s in Antwerp.
A clean and attractive copy in a near-contemporary binding. Adams G-1535; STC Italian, p.321; Graesse III, 179.
GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Commentarii di Lodovico Guicciardini Delle cose piú memorabili seguite in Europa…Libri tre.
Venice: Nicoló Bevilacqua, 1565
4to. 205 x 140 mm. Woodcut printer’s device to title. A very good and clean copy with very occasional minor paperflaws not affecting text Early 17th-century limp vellum, remnants of blue cloth ties. Ink title to spine in contemporary hand, early paper shelfmark labels to head and foot of spine.
Guicciardini (1521-1589) was a Florentine merchant and writer who lived primarily in Antwerp from about 1542 on. His best-known work is a description of the Low Countries published in 1567, an influential account complete with maps. This work is a precursor, a historical underpinning of the subsequent major work divided into three books. The first covers 1529-1544, or the Peace of Cambrai to the Peace of Crépy, the second up to the abdication of Charles V in 1555, and the third until 1560. According to Edit16, the catalogue of Italian 17th-century works, the first edition is Venice in 1564 (printed by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari); this edition was produced the year after, one of two produced in 1565, the other being W. Verwilt’s in Antwerp.
A clean and attractive copy in a near-contemporary binding. Adams G-1535; STC Italian, p.321; Graesse III, 179.