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Giovio, Paolo, Andrea Cambini, Paolo Manuzio, and others. Commentarii delle cose de Turchi, di Paulo Giouio, et Andrea Gambini, con gli fatti, et la vita di Scanderbeg. [Part 2:] Commentario di Andrea Cambini fiorentino, della origine de Turchi, et imperio della casa ottomana. Libro primo. [Part 3:] Commentario delle cose de Turchi, et del s. Georgio Scanderberg, principe di Epiro, con la sua vita, et le vittorie per lui conseguite, et le inestimabili forze, et vertù di quello degne di memoria. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1541 Lord Burghley's copy. William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, served as chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I for the majority of her reign. He also twice served as Secretary of State, and as Lord High Treasurer from 1572. 8vo (150 x 90 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-D8 E4 A-I8 K4 A-F8 G4: 164 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, occasional early marginalia. (Very minor occasional dampstaining at lower margins, stray spots.) binding: Contemporary English brown calf (155 x 100 mm), possibly King Edward and Queen Mary Binder, covers decorated with circular interlacing strapwork painted black and outlined in gilt, within a black frame flanked by gilt fillets, leaf in spaces inside frame and on each side of central circle which contains W*C, spine with raised bands in five compartments lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. (Rebacked partially preserving original spine, corners restored, upper hinge weak.) provenance: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598), supralibros, initials "W.C." — early occasional marginalia — Robert Bruce 1st Earl of Ailesbury (later styled Aylesbury) and 2nd Earl of Elgin (1626-1685), by decent through his wife, Lady Diana Grey (1625?-1689), Lord Burghley's great-great-granddaughter — Thomas Bentley & Benjamin Walford, London, 21 November 1687, lot 267 — Sir Charles James Stuart, 2nd Bt. (1824-1901), bookplate to pastedown — Sir Edward Andrew Stuart, 3rd Bt. (1832-1903); his sale, Sotheby's London, 29-30 June 1903, lot 286 — William Ridler, London, purchased in previous sale — Giuseppe Martini Lugano, bookplate to front free-endpaper — Libreria antiquaria Ulrico Hoepli & Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 27-29 August 1934, lot 102 — Libreria antiquaria Hoepli, Pomifer autumnus, Milan 1950, item 92 — Sotheby’s London, 28 February 1966, lot 188. acquisition: Purchased from Charles J. Sawyer, London, 1972. references: UCLA 304; Renouard 123/11; Edit16 21157; USTC 833155