Ferrante. Opere permesse … dedicate all’illustrissimo et eccellentissimo sign. Gio. Battista Cornaro, procuratore di San Marco [ Half-title: Tutte le opere permesse … Ripartite in quattro tomi. Aggion

by PALLAVICINO

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PALLAVICINO, Ferrante. Opere permesse … dedicate all’illustrissimo et eccellentissimo sign. Gio. Battista Cornaro, procuratore di San Marco [ Half-title: Tutte le opere permesse … Ripartite in quattro tomi. Aggiontaui la sua Vita non mai stampata]. Venice: Stamperia del Turrini . 1655. Four vols, 12mo. Contemporary full calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, titles lettered directly in gilt to one, edges sprinkled red and green; pp. vol. I: [36, collective half-title and engraved title, engraved frontispiece to Vita ], 192, 192, 166, bound without final blank; II: 432, 48, 96, lacking half-title and engraved title; III: [4, half-title and engraved title] 288, 216, 87, [1]; IV: 336, 118, [2 (blank)], 104, lacking half-title and engraved title; each individual work with title-page, woodcut printer device to titles, woodcut initials; extremities a little worn, boards a little rubbed, spine ends of vols I IV with small chips, front hinge of vol. I cracked but holding firm, small, old restoration to foot of spine of vol. I; internally very good and clean; some contemporary marginal marks and erasures in ink to first 40 pp. of vol. II; 18th-century ownership signature “Fingerlin”, and ownership inscription of “J v. Prieser”, dated “Augsburg … 17 März, 1788”, in ink to front free endpaper of vol. I; early inscription in ink (washed) and 19th-century signature in pencil to half-title of vol. I; armorial bookplate of Edward and Marianna Heron-Allen, dated “July MDCCCXCI”, to front

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