Aldine.- Bizzarri (Pietro) Varia opuscula, quorum indicem sequens pagina demonstrabit, first edition, Venice, [Paulus Manutius], 1565.
Aldine.- Bizzarri (Pietro) Varia opuscula, quorum indicem sequens pagina demonstrabit, first edition, 4 parts in 1, collation: A-T8 U4, woodcut printer's device to titles, woodcut head and tail-pieces and decorative initials, few small wormholes to lower margin of last 3-4 ff., the odd spot or small stain, final blank torn with loss and laid down, modern morocco, richly gilt, [Adams B2090; Renouard 198-199:15; EDIT 16 CNCE 6175], 8vo (153 x 99mm.), Venice, [Paulus Manutius], 1565.
⁂ ⁂ Rare in commerce. Bizzarri was an Italian historian, spy, and sometime fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Provenance: 'G. Madrin, 1577'; 'Nicolai Saundersoni codex ex dono Gryffi madrin defuncti...1577...Oxon' (ink inscriptions to front free endpaper and title).
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Aldine.- Bizzarri (Pietro) Varia opuscula, quorum indicem sequens pagina demonstrabit, first edition, 4 parts in 1, collation: A-T8 U4, woodcut printer's device to titles, woodcut head and tail-pieces and decorative initials, few small wormholes to lower margin of last 3-4 ff., the odd spot or small stain, final blank torn with loss and laid down, modern morocco, richly gilt, [Adams B2090; Renouard 198-199:15; EDIT 16 CNCE 6175], 8vo (153 x 99mm.), Venice, [Paulus Manutius], 1565.
⁂ ⁂ Rare in commerce. Bizzarri was an Italian historian, spy, and sometime fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Provenance: 'G. Madrin, 1577'; 'Nicolai Saundersoni codex ex dono Gryffi madrin defuncti...1577...Oxon' (ink inscriptions to front free endpaper and title).