signed first edition
1538 · Venice
by Crescenzi, Pietro de' (1233-1320).
Venice: Bernardino de' Viani, 1538. Good. Octavo (17 cm); [784] pages (signed A-BBB\8, plus index signed with maltese cross\8). One full-page woodcut illustration within patterned border. Floral border around title (at the top of which is a cat and mouse, similar to the image used by Sessa), and floriated initials at the beginning of each of the 12 books. Modern vellum binding, reusing an 18th-century morocco label; tail edge of text block titled in contemporary manuscript. Title with small oil stain transferring to following several leaves until disappearing at the fifth leaf, outer conjugate of first and last gatherings guarded, last leaf extended (truncated)