CIACCONE, Alfonso (1540-1599). Historia utriusque belli Dacici a Traiano Caesare gesti. Rome: Iacobo Mascardi, 1616. 2° (320 x 245mm). Mounted on guards throughout. Woodcut device on title. Engraved double-page plan of Trajan's column, two folding views of the column and 130 double-page plates of the spiral frieze. (Plate numbered 15 with neatly repaired tear affecting the plate area.) Contemporary Dutch red morocco, panelled in gilt with flower-head cornerpieces and a central blocked lozenge formed from scrolling foliage and flower-heads, gilt in compartments (lacking ties). Provenance : Joachim van Wickevoort (signature beneath fine large engraved armorial bookplate). A fine copy of a work first published in 1576. The author, Alonso Chacon, born in Grenada, was known as an antiquary , historian, theologian and bibliographer; he produced a general bibliography of all books to 1583. He died in Rome in 1599. The binding appears to be strictly contemporary: the endpapers bear a coat-of-arms watermark that is a variant of Heawood 483-486, which Heawood dates between 1604 and 1628.
CIACCONE, Alfonso (1540-1599). Historia utriusque belli Dacici a Traiano Caesare gesti. Rome: Iacobo Mascardi, 1616. 2° (320 x 245mm). Mounted on guards throughout. Woodcut device on title. Engraved double-page plan of Trajan's column, two folding views of the column and 130 double-page plates of the spiral frieze. (Plate numbered 15 with neatly repaired tear affecting the plate area.) Contemporary Dutch red morocco, panelled in gilt with flower-head cornerpieces and a central blocked lozenge formed from scrolling foliage and flower-heads, gilt in compartments (lacking ties). Provenance : Joachim van Wickevoort (signature beneath fine large engraved armorial bookplate). A fine copy of a work first published in 1576. The author, Alonso Chacon, born in Grenada, was known as an antiquary , historian, theologian and bibliographer; he produced a general bibliography of all books to 1583. He died in Rome in 1599. The binding appears to be strictly contemporary: the endpapers bear a coat-of-arms watermark that is a variant of Heawood 483-486, which Heawood dates between 1604 and 1628.
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