FABIO COLONNA (1567-?1650) Minus cognitarum stirpium aliquot ac etiam rariorum nostro coelo orientium, Rome: Faciotti, 1606. 4° (230 x 163mm.). Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, engraved portrait of Colonna on verso, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, 114 full-page etched illustrations set in type ornament borders. (Title and portrait spotted, occasional light spotting, browning and offsetting, without the 2 preliminary leaves present in some copies consisting of a letter to St. Paul). Later calf, covers blind-stamped, spine gilt-lettered (rebacked, extremities rubbed and scuffed). Provenance : some old ink scoring and marginal annotation. FIRST EDITION. Blunt & Stearn p. 100; Brunet II, 173; Nissen BBI 385; Pritzel 1823. A second part was published in 1616.
FABIO COLONNA (1567-?1650) Minus cognitarum stirpium aliquot ac etiam rariorum nostro coelo orientium, Rome: Faciotti, 1606. 4° (230 x 163mm.). Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, engraved portrait of Colonna on verso, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, 114 full-page etched illustrations set in type ornament borders. (Title and portrait spotted, occasional light spotting, browning and offsetting, without the 2 preliminary leaves present in some copies consisting of a letter to St. Paul). Later calf, covers blind-stamped, spine gilt-lettered (rebacked, extremities rubbed and scuffed). Provenance : some old ink scoring and marginal annotation. FIRST EDITION. Blunt & Stearn p. 100; Brunet II, 173; Nissen BBI 385; Pritzel 1823. A second part was published in 1616.
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