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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...

Estimation : 2000 / 2500
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
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). Second edition of the translation by Francesco Strozzi of the "History of the Peloponnesian War" (1st 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).
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