Sales catalogue 528: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/83
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 528: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    11 [CHESS.] Carrera (Pictro). Il Gioco de gli Scacchi did Pietro Carrera. Diviso in otto Libri, Ne’ quali s’insegnano i precetti, le uscite, e 1 tratti posticci del gioco, e si discorre della vera origine di esso. Gon due discorsi, ’uno del Padre D. Gio. Battista Cherubino, altro del Dottor Mario Tortelli. Woodcut of Chess-board on title, Arms on reverse. FIRST EDITION. Sm. 4to, half morocco. Militello: Per Giovanni de’ Rossi da Trento, 1617, £10 10s 12 [COSTUME.! Franco (Giacomo). MHabiti delle Donne Venetiane intagliate in rame. Engraved title-page with view of Venice; text in Latin and Italian. With 20 fine full-page plates, depicting contemporary Venetian costumes of ladies and gentlemen, scenes of Venetian social life, includ- ing bullftghts, gondolas, carnival, etc. Small folio, boards. Venice, about 1610. £12 12s On the frontispiece is a view of Venice and of the Rialto Bridge. ITALIAN LITERATURE AND PRINTING. 13 GAPACCIO (Guil. Cesare). Gli Apologi di Giulio Cesare Capaccio, con la giunta a delle Dicerie Moraii. FIRST EDITION. W2th 95 emblematic woodcuts with verses beneaih. 8vo, original vellum. Napoli, G. I. Carlino, 1602. £3 3s 14 [CATHERINE (St. of Sienna).| Dialogo, con la sua vita & canoniza- tione, (rime in laude di S. Catharina). With woodcut portrait of the Saint on title, ornamental capitals, and printer's device beneath colophon. Small 8vo, original Italian binding of wooden boards and brown morocco, blind stamped n arabesque cable design, metal clasps (skil- _ fully rebacked). Venice, Césaro Arrivabeno, 4th November, 1517. £6 6s At end are verses by Pius II, Anastagio da Monte Alzino, Rayn. de Paglaresi, Jac. di Monte Pulciano.