BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Genealogiae deorum . - De montibus silvis, fontibus . Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1494/95.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Genealogiae deorum . - De montibus silvis, fontibus . Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1494/95. Super-chancery 2° (290 x 190mm). Roman type. 13 full-page woodcut genealogical trees opening the first 13 books, woodcut initials, publisher's device at end. (Corners repaired with text loss of 8 lines on verso of leaf a1 and with loss of a few words from leaf a2 to a7, closed worm track in upper margin of first 10 leaves, a few small wormholes and light waterstaining, some marginal, some woodcuts shaved.) Late 18th-century calf (upper spine repaired retaining part of old spine, a few small wormholes, rubbed, corners bumped, front joint cracked). Provenance : contemporary marginal annotations, Biblioteca Corsinia Vetus (stamp on title verso). Fourth edition of the full text, and the first to contain the full-page woodcut diagrams illustrating the genealogy of the pagan gods. The woodcuts were next used in a 1497 reprint by Manfredus de Bonellis. HC *3321; GW 4478; BMC V, 444 (IB. 22904); BSB-Ink B-586; Klebs 190.3; Essling 799; Sander 1077; Goff B-753.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Genealogiae deorum . - De montibus silvis, fontibus . Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1494/95.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Genealogiae deorum . - De montibus silvis, fontibus . Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1494/95. Super-chancery 2° (290 x 190mm). Roman type. 13 full-page woodcut genealogical trees opening the first 13 books, woodcut initials, publisher's device at end. (Corners repaired with text loss of 8 lines on verso of leaf a1 and with loss of a few words from leaf a2 to a7, closed worm track in upper margin of first 10 leaves, a few small wormholes and light waterstaining, some marginal, some woodcuts shaved.) Late 18th-century calf (upper spine repaired retaining part of old spine, a few small wormholes, rubbed, corners bumped, front joint cracked). Provenance : contemporary marginal annotations, Biblioteca Corsinia Vetus (stamp on title verso). Fourth edition of the full text, and the first to contain the full-page woodcut diagrams illustrating the genealogy of the pagan gods. The woodcuts were next used in a 1497 reprint by Manfredus de Bonellis. HC *3321; GW 4478; BMC V, 444 (IB. 22904); BSB-Ink B-586; Klebs 190.3; Essling 799; Sander 1077; Goff B-753.
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