Accession number:
PML 22096
Published:
In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1545.
Description:
156, [8] pages ; 16 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Edited by Giuseppe Betussi.
Morgan copy missing leaves A1 (title page) and A3.
Binding:
16th-century Italian brown morocco, gold-tooled with foliate design, figure of Fortune holding a sail and standing on a dolphin with tools of the winds in each corner of the cover, perhaps by Pflug & Ebeleben Binder of Bologna (not cited in Nixon, 1971 or Needham, 1979); rebacked.
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), inscription (front pastedown), his sale: Sotheby's (London), 17 July 1922, lot 232; J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from Joseph Baer, Oct. 1923.
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