[ OVIDIUS NASO, Publius].- Le trasformationi di M. Lodovico Dolce. Di nuove ristampate, e da lui ricorrette, et in diversi luoghi ampliate […]. Venetia, appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratel., 1553. In-4° : [16, engr. title...
Estimation :
800 - 1 000 €
Adjudication :
700 €
Description
included]-309-[9] pp. (monogrammed stamp in the margin of p. 1, rare small stains, margin of p. 302 skilfully repaired, copy in very good condition).
19th century binding : brown (olive) calf, boards with a double fillets frame, ribbed spine with gilt fillets and red leather label, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt roll-stamp on the turn ins, gilt edges (spine, joints and edges rubbed, small wears on the boards, corners dulled, copy trimmed).
Second edition of the translation, or more precisely of the adaptation, by Lodovico Dolce of Ovid's Metamophoses, published the same year as the princeps. Illustrated with an architectural title-border (Giolito's phoenix device in it), a world map with America labelled "Nueva Hispania" and 84 woodcuts in the text with ornemental side pieces by the architect Antonio Giovanni Rusconi.
Text printed in italics in two columns with historiated initials, some ornemental head-pieces and one tail-piece. The theorist of painting Dolce (1508-1568) was a prolific author, translator of Greek and Latin authors and editor. He was one of the most active intellectuals in Venice.
Mortimer 342;
Adams O-508;
STC Italy p. 482;
USTC 845803;
Edit 16 CNCE 54429;
not in Soltész nor in Machiels.
→Seconda edizione della translatione delle Metamorfosi di Ovidio, o più giustamente dell'adattazione del Dolce. Illustrato con un titolo architettonico e 85 vignette xylografiche di Antonio Giovanni Rusconi. Novocentensca pelle verde (leg. un po usata, buona condizione).
→Seconde édition de la traduction, ou plus précisément de l'adaptation, des Métamorphoses par Dolce. Titre dans un encadrement architectural et illustré de 85 vignettes. Plein veau du 19e s. (lég. us. à la rel., bonne condition).
19th century binding : brown (olive) calf, boards with a double fillets frame, ribbed spine with gilt fillets and red leather label, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt roll-stamp on the turn ins, gilt edges (spine, joints and edges rubbed, small wears on the boards, corners dulled, copy trimmed).
Second edition of the translation, or more precisely of the adaptation, by Lodovico Dolce of Ovid's Metamophoses, published the same year as the princeps. Illustrated with an architectural title-border (Giolito's phoenix device in it), a world map with America labelled "Nueva Hispania" and 84 woodcuts in the text with ornemental side pieces by the architect Antonio Giovanni Rusconi.
Text printed in italics in two columns with historiated initials, some ornemental head-pieces and one tail-piece. The theorist of painting Dolce (1508-1568) was a prolific author, translator of Greek and Latin authors and editor. He was one of the most active intellectuals in Venice.
Mortimer 342;
Adams O-508;
STC Italy p. 482;
USTC 845803;
Edit 16 CNCE 54429;
not in Soltész nor in Machiels.
→Seconda edizione della translatione delle Metamorfosi di Ovidio, o più giustamente dell'adattazione del Dolce. Illustrato con un titolo architettonico e 85 vignette xylografiche di Antonio Giovanni Rusconi. Novocentensca pelle verde (leg. un po usata, buona condizione).
→Seconde édition de la traduction, ou plus précisément de l'adaptation, des Métamorphoses par Dolce. Titre dans un encadrement architectural et illustré de 85 vignettes. Plein veau du 19e s. (lég. us. à la rel., bonne condition).
