Milan.- Corio (Bernardino) Bernardini Corii viri clarissimi mediolanensis Patria historia, first

Milan.- Corio (Bernardino) Bernardini Corii viri clarissimi mediolanensis Patria historia, first edition, collation: [?]6 a10 b12 c-d6 e-m8 n6 o-z8 &8 [cum]8 [rum]8 A-X8 aa-dd8 ee6 ff8, blank capital spaces with some printed guide letters and some in brown ink, whole page woodcut to a3v, woodcut portrait to a4v & aa1v, and another woodcut illustration ff3r, scattered early ink notes to margins in multiple hands, these trimmed in some instances, some light ink and water stains (a4v, aa8-bb2 and X6-X7) or soiling, Milan, Alessandro Minuziano, 1503, bound after Dello eccellentissimo oratore messer Bernardino Corio milanese..., collation: A6, title with woodcut vignette and within figurative woodcut border, paper repairs to gutter and lower fore-edge corner, Milan, Giovanni Giacomo Da Legnano & brothers, 1520, together 2 works in 1, eighteenth century red morocco, spine gilt, a little faded, expert leather repairs to upper joint and spine extremities, scuffed in places, folio (397 x 272 mm).*** First edition of chronicle of Milan in Italian.Provenance: I: ‘Vincentio F. Nob. D. Io: Ant.i Morandi. RR' [ink ownership inscription a1r]. II: from the library of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683, Chief Minister of France to the King of France Louis XIV from 1661 to 1683, and a bibliophile), ‘Bibliothecae Colbertinae’ [ink ownership inscription A1].Literature: Adams C2632; Edit16 CNCE 13302.