1559 HISTORY by PAOLO GIOVIO antique 16th Century VELLUM BINDING

Giovio, Paolo.

Gli elogi vite brevemente scritte d'huomini illustri di guerra, antichi, et moderni.
Tradotte per M. Lodovico Domenichi.

Venice, Francesco Bindoni, 1559

8 leaves, 574 pages.

With woodcut printer's mark.


Original limp vellum, with manuscript title to the spine, lacks ties

- Not in Adams or the STC. –


A rare Venetian printing of the work of the Florentine historian Paolo Giovio (1483–1552)


Good condition, some wear

Size 4 1/4 by 6 1/3"

Text in Latin
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Paolo Giovio (also spelled Paulo Jovio; Latin: Paulus Jovius; 1483 – 1552) was an Italian physician, historian, biographer, and prelate.
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