1565 · Venetia
by Toscanella, Oratio
Venetia: Apresso Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1565. 8vo, unpaged; A-R8; woodcut printer's device and initials; text in double column; contemporary wrappers (quite soiled), 20th-century brown cloth slipcase, gilt-lettered spine; ex-Brooklyn Public Library with usual markings and gift bookplate accomplished in typescript; covers detached, spine perished, loss to upper cover wrapper, back wrapper fore-edge torn; two losses to front free endpaper; occasional dampstaining throughout, else textblock mostly good and sound. Contemporary owner signatures of Antonio Caregara Verono on front flyleaf, additional notes, apparently in a different hand, on rear free endpaper. BM-STC Italian, p. 677; not in Adams. (Inventory #: 43060)