BEMBO. Della Historia Vinitiana di Messer Pietro Bembo cardinale.
BEMBO, Pietro. Della Historia Vinitiana di Messer Pietro Bembo cardinale, volgarmente scritta. Libri XII. Venezia, Gualtiero Scotto, 1552In 4to; 200x153 mm; Legatura in pergamena marmorizzata con tassello al dorso in marocchino rosso. Cc 14 n. num; 179 cc. num; 1 cc. n. num; grandi marche tipografiche al frontespizio e al colophon: Mercurio abbraccia Minerva con elmo piumato e scudo in mano due dardi.
Condition Report: 4to; 200x153 mm; Marbled vellum binding, red morocco label on spine. Leaves 14 not numbered; 179 leaves numbered; 1 leaf not numbered; large printer’s devices on the title page and colophon: Mercury embraces Minerva with a plumed helmet and shield, holding two darts. Good specimen.First rare Italian edition of the history of Venice in 12 books by Pietro Bembo, an important Venetian cardinal and humanist. The printer dedicated this edition to Isabella Quirina with a letter from which we learn that Bembo himself popularized this story of his on the advice of the woman with whom the author had a great friendship.
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BEMBO, Pietro. Della Historia Vinitiana di Messer Pietro Bembo cardinale, volgarmente scritta. Libri XII. Venezia, Gualtiero Scotto, 1552In 4to; 200x153 mm; Legatura in pergamena marmorizzata con tassello al dorso in marocchino rosso. Cc 14 n. num; 179 cc. num; 1 cc. n. num; grandi marche tipografiche al frontespizio e al colophon: Mercurio abbraccia Minerva con elmo piumato e scudo in mano due dardi.
Condition Report: 4to; 200x153 mm; Marbled vellum binding, red morocco label on spine. Leaves 14 not numbered; 179 leaves numbered; 1 leaf not numbered; large printer’s devices on the title page and colophon: Mercury embraces Minerva with a plumed helmet and shield, holding two darts. Good specimen.First rare Italian edition of the history of Venice in 12 books by Pietro Bembo, an important Venetian cardinal and humanist. The printer dedicated this edition to Isabella Quirina with a letter from which we learn that Bembo himself popularized this story of his on the advice of the woman with whom the author had a great friendship.
