Accession number
PML 61049
Creator
Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547.
Published
In Vinegia : Appresso Gualtero Scotto [for C. Gualteruzzi?], M.D.LII [1552].
Notes
Translation of: Historiae Venetae libri XII. Venice, 1551.
"La vita di M. Pietro Bembo cardinale": leaves [5]-[14]. Probably by G. della Casa.
Printer's name from colophon. Publisher surmised from license.
Book VI includes an account of Portuguese and Spanish exploration in America.
Signatures: *⁴ **¹⁰; A-Y⁸ Z⁴.
Marginal annotations attributed to John Florio.
"La vita di M. Pietro Bembo cardinale": leaves [5]-[14]. Probably by G. della Casa.
Printer's name from colophon. Publisher surmised from license.
Book VI includes an account of Portuguese and Spanish exploration in America.
Signatures: *⁴ **¹⁰; A-Y⁸ Z⁴.
Marginal annotations attributed to John Florio.
Description
[14], 179, [1] leaves ; 23 cm. (4to)
Provenance
John Florio (1553?-1625), significant marginal annotations throughout text; E. Smith, inscription: "ESmith of Mr Sare 1690: £/6: now bound by Ward of Leicester 1701: £/2:1s:8d" (front endleaf 1 recto; perhaps referring to the bookseller Richard Sare, Holbourn); unidentified shelfmark: D.4.4., followed by pencil note: "Barrett" (front pastedown); Frederick Adolphus Philbrick (1835-1910), Middle Temple, armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Harper Fund, Oct. 1970.
Binding
Calf, blind tooled with sprinkled panels in Cambridge style, bound by Ward of Leicester, 1701 (likely J. Ward).
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