1574 BERNARDINO PINO antique Della nuoua scielta di lettere ALDUS ALDINE PRESS

Pino, Bernardino.

Della nuoua scielta di lettere di diuersi nobilissimi huomini, et eccel.mi ingegni, scritte in diuerse materie, fatta da tutti i libri sin'hora stampati, libro primo [-secondo].
Con un discorso della commodita dello scriuere, di m. Bernardino Pino.

Venice: Aldo II Manuzio; 1574



 Italic and Roman type, 31 lines plus headline.


collation: *-***8 A-Z8 Aa-Dd8 Ee4 a-z8 aa-ll8 mm4 (Ee4 a blank): 520 leaves.

Woodcut printer's device on title-page, margins ruled in red, woodcut headpieces, i8 and l1 tables of Hebrew character.

(A few stray spots and stains, occasional browning.)



Original French limp vellum , covers with border of two gilt fillets,
gilt arabesque floral corner ornaments and central arabesque, traces of two pairs of ties,
flat spine with false gilt bands in five compartments,

manuscript title to first and second,

edges gilt


provenance:

Possibly Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone Libri, Count Libri-Carrucci (1803-1869) — possibly Commandeur & Louis-Catherine Silvestre with Pierre Jannet, Catalogue de la bibliotheque de M. L****, Paris, 28 June-4 August 1847, lot 2810 —

inscription "Vente Libri Paris 1847, No 2810, 19 Frs." on endpaper

— William Chadwell Mylne (1781-1863), ex libris (possibly his second son, also William Chadwell Mylne).


references:

UCLA 867 (not in collection); Renouard 217/6; Edit16 27510; USTC 848846

Size about 4.5 by 6.5 inches

Text in Italian
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