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Petri Bembi cardinalis Historiae Venetae libri XII.

Accession number
PML 1132
Creator
Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547.
Published
Venetiis : Apud Aldi Filios [for C. Gualteruzzi?], 1551.
Notes
1st ed., 2nd issue.
Book VI includes an account of Portuguese and Spanish exploration in America.
Errata on last leaf.
In this issue, no printer's name appears on t.p., but there is a Hermes and Athena device (on t.p.) and the license on verso of t.p. is to Gualteruzzi. Another issue (not in PML) has the printer's name and an Aldine anchor device on the t.p., the verso being blank.
Printer's name from colophon. Publisher suggested by Alden.
Signatures: *⁴ A-Z⁴ a-z⁴ 2A-2E⁴.
Description
[4], 203, [1] leaves ; 36 cm (fol.)
Provenance
Biblioteca S. Andreae (stamp), Lord Gosford (bookplate), J. Toovey (bookplate).
Binding
Embossed brown morocco, by Clarke & Bedford.
Classification
Department