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459 – (Auteur de l'antiquité) -
THUCYDIDES.- Gli otto libri, delle guerre fatte
tra popoli della Morea, et gli Atheniesi, nuovamente dal Greco idioma, nella
lingua thoscana, con ogni diligenza tradotto, per Francesco di Soldo Strozzi
Fiorentino [...].
[Venezia, al segno del Laocoonte, 1550].
Small in-8° : [12]-400 lvs (small marginal tears in the beginning, those of 2 first lvs repaired -with lack of
publishing place and date on title-page-, small foxing mostly in the margins, light dampstains, stamps in
2 margins).
Contemporary binding : brown morocco, boards with gilt double fillets and roll-stamps, with angular fleurons
in the inner frame, flat spine with same frames encircling "Thucydide" in the center, gilt edges (nice condition,
2 small wormholes, slightly trimmed).
Est.
:
2.000/ 2.500 €
Second edition of the translation by Francesco Strozzi of the "History of the Peloponnesian
War" (1
st
ed. of the transl. : 1545). Text printed in italics illustrated with historiated initials and
2 identical devices on title-page and larger on the verso of last leaf figuring Laocoon and his
children being suffocated by the snake. A Laocoon vignette was used by Valerio and Luigi
Dorico in 1539 and 1544 but the composition is different from ours.
# USTC 859008; # Soltész T-207; # EDIT16 40470; # Adams T-684 (ed. 1545) and
T-685 (ed. 1564).
▲ Provenance : Duke of Genoa (ex-libris).
¶
Seconda edizione della traduzione di Strozzi. Con 2 vignette xylografiche raffiguranti Laocoonte. Pieno
marocchino marrone coevo (strappi, 2 restaurati -con mancanze al titolo-, arrossature, lieve macchie
d'acqua).
460 – (Costume) -
BAÏF, Lazare de.- De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio
excerptus : addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adolescentulorum gratiam
atque utilitatem. Secunda editio.
Parisiis, ex officina Roberti Stephani, 1541 (id. april.).
In-8° : 68-[11] pp. (light marginal dampstains, 1 small marginal tear, marginal hole in one lf. due to burning
and mark of it on 2 other lvs, fresh condition).
Modern binding : bradel grey paper, flat spine titled in length.
Est.
:
300/ 400 €
One of the three "second edition", the others published by Robert Estienne (Paris, 1535)
and by Sébastien Gryphe (Lyon, 1536), of this work often reprinted (1
st
ed. : P. Girault,
1535). Treatise on ancient attire, from hats to sandals, carpets, rugs and colours of wools
and cloths written by the humanist and diplomat de Baïf abridged for children by Charles
Estienne, private tutor of de Baïf's son Jean Antoine. With an index in Latin and French.
Mark of Estienne on the title-page.
# Renouard p. 52 (under the title "De vasculis, de re vestiaria [...]"); # Adams B-45; # USTC
88432; # not in Machiels (other ed.), STC French (id.), Soltész.
¶
Seconde édition, bien que deux autres éd. de 1535 et 1536 portent aussi la mention de 2
e
édition,
de cet ouvr. sur l'art de se vêtir par de Baïf et résumé par Charles Estienne. Bradel plein papier gris
moderne (claires mouill. marg.).
461 – (Didactica) -
BEROALDO, Filippo.- Libellus quo Septem Sapientum
sententiae discutiuntur.
(Bononiae [Bologne], per Benedictum Hectoris, 1502. die. x. octobris).
In-4° : [24] lvs (marginal dampstains, underlinings, good condition).
Modern binding : bradel half parchment, grey paper boards, flat spine.
Est.
:
500/ 600 €
Fine large-paper copy of this second Bologna edition (1
st
ed. published by the same : 1498)