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~ Rare 1st Italian edition ~
1052
[Low Countries]
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GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico
- Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini
patritio Fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore. Antwerp, Willem
Silvius, 1567, folio, sp. calf (rubbed, bumped corners, splitting joints, front cover sl. loosening gilt
spine on 6 raised bands (wormtrack in lower part), [20]-296 (= 339)-[19-1 bl.] pp. (browning &
foxing throughout, some water and mildew stains). Still good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 1000/1500
Rare 1st Italian ed
. With
woodcut ills:
allegorical t.-p.,
2 dedicatory front.
with coat-of-arms and
portrait of Philip II,
5 maps
and
12 city maps & views
. This ed. contains a lot of printing mistakes,
wrong pagination and a register which can hardly be used. Guicciardini’s work was trsl. and ed.
into French, Dutch, Latin and even into German and English all through the 16th and part of the
17th c. In these later eds the woodcuts were replaced by copper engrs. Armorial bookpl. Le Marquis
[name erased]. Collector’s stamp.
Ref.
Guicc. Illustr., p. 28. Adams G-1540. Pettegree NB 13995
(= BT 1360).
~ Beautiful illustrated 1st German edition ~
1053
[Low Countries]
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GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico
- Niderlands Beschreibung in welcher aller
darinn begriffnen Landtschafften, Fürstenthumben, Graueschafften, Herzschafften, Bisthumben,
Abteyen, Stetten (...). Mit Geographischen Tafeln, Stetten und andern Figuren (...). Basel, Sebastian
Henricpetri, [1580], folio, mod. calf (sl. rubbed & scratched), flat spine, sp. edges, mod. endpapers,
[24]-cccxxxv-[2] pp. (some marg. clear foxing & dampstaining, 3 margin repairs affecting a few
characters, 1 double-page map sl. dampstained & loosening). Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 1100/1500
Rare 1st German ed.
by Daniel Federman von Memmingen of the famous description of the Low
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