Lot 164
Marcello, Pietro.
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
De vita, moribus et rebus gestis omnium ducum Venetorum. Frankfurt: Paulum Reffeler inpensis Sigismondi Feyerabent, 1574, 8vo. ff. [viii] 218 [i], Printer's flame device on titlepage, 83 woodcut portraits of Venetian Doges (some repeated) by J. Amman, 20 cuts of tombs (some repeated), contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, titlepage bit dusty, lower blank margin torn away
Footnote
Note: In 1574 Reffeler published two editions: a folio in German, and the present, which is the first illustrated edition in Latin. Both contain numerous half-page woodcut portraits of the Doges of Venice and smaller cuts of their tombs, attributed to the illustrious German engraver Jöst Amman (1539-1591).
BM STC Ger. C16th p. 593. Adams M 532. Brunet Suppl. I p. 939.
Provenance: 'Joanni Angstenberg 1630' inscribed on titlepage.