Lot 195
Riviera, Cesare della
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
£1,875
Description
Il Magico Mondo de Gli Heroi. Mantua: Francesco Osanna, 1603. Small 4to, engraved title-page, woodcut initials, cartouches and printer's device, contemporary vellum, erased inscription to p.216, title-page repaired, a little foxing, slight soiling and some minor dampstaining, a few marginal marks in an early hand, a few small wormholes in spine
Footnote
Provenance: Head of initial page of the work inscribed "Dom. Rovesta" in an early hand; Caio Mario de Mello Franco, lithographed bookplate