Emblemata.- Bocchi (Achille) Symbolicarum Quaetionum, De universo genere, quas serio ludebat, Libri Quinque, collation: † b-f A-Z Aa-Yy4, mostly italic type, title with woodcut printer's device, engraved portrait of the author and 151 fine large engraved emblematic illustrations by Guilio Bonasone after Prospero Fontana and Parmigianino, ink inscription cut from title and neatly repaired, (not affecting text), some staining, spotting or finger-marking, contemporary vellum, rebacked, lacking ties, little soiled and stained, small 4to (210 x 155mm.), Bologna, [Giovanni Rossi] for the Società Tipografica Bolognese, 1574. ⁂ Second edition of this handsome work, with the illustrations reworked by Agostino Carracci It is the first production of the Società Tipografica Bolognese, established in 1572 under the direction of Giovanni Rossi Literature: Adams B1295; Landwehr, Romanic, 163; Mortimer, Italian, 77; EDIT 16 CNCE 6486.
Emblemata.- Bocchi (Achille) Symbolicarum Quaetionum, De universo genere, quas serio ludebat, Libri Quinque, collation: † b-f A-Z Aa-Yy4, mostly italic type, title with woodcut printer's device, engraved portrait of the author and 151 fine large engraved emblematic illustrations by Guilio Bonasone after Prospero Fontana and Parmigianino, ink inscription cut from title and neatly repaired, (not affecting text), some staining, spotting or finger-marking, contemporary vellum, rebacked, lacking ties, little soiled and stained, small 4to (210 x 155mm.), Bologna, [Giovanni Rossi] for the Società Tipografica Bolognese, 1574. ⁂ Second edition of this handsome work, with the illustrations reworked by Agostino Carracci It is the first production of the Società Tipografica Bolognese, established in 1572 under the direction of Giovanni Rossi Literature: Adams B1295; Landwehr, Romanic, 163; Mortimer, Italian, 77; EDIT 16 CNCE 6486.
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