SCANDIANESE, Tito Giovanni Ganzarini, known as - Lot 207

Lot 207
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SCANDIANESE, Tito Giovanni Ganzarini, known as - Lot 207
SCANDIANESE, Tito Giovanni Ganzarini, known as I Quattro Libri della Caccia... Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari et fratelli, 1556 A CLASSIC OF ITALIAN HUNTING ORIGINAL EDITION. 2 parts in 1 in-4 volume (200 x 141 mm). Large repeated printer's mark on title pages and verso of last leaf, woodcut initials, headbands and tailpieces. COLLATION: (I): A-Z4 (Y1 badly signed X1): 164-(20) pp. ; (II): A-C4: 23-(1) pp. ILLUSTRATION: 16 woodcuts. early 17th century binding. Stiff ivory vellum, spine ribbed, red speckled edges, handwritten title on spine. Modern box. PROVENANCE: old handwritten bookplate at bottom of second leaf -- Raymond Dervaux (bookplate (damaged) with motto "Autre ne sers") -- Count Carlos Jerónimo Humberto de Bobone (1878-1935; bookplate with motto "Fide sed vide") Marginal restoration to title leaf, with a small portion of the printer's mark taken over in pen. BIBLIOGRAPHY: USTC 855416 -- EDIT16 27348 -- Brunet, II, 1606 -- not in Thiébaud -- Schwerdt, I, 207 : "First edition of a book chiefly attractive on account of its elegant make-up, woodcuts and initial letters" -- Souhart, 421
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