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Mela, Pomponius. Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester... Florence: Heirs of Filippo I Giunta, April 1519 Scarce edition, based on the Aldine edition published a year earlier. 8vo (158 x 95 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-z8 &8 ꙅ8 X8 A-B8: 224 leaves, foliated. Woodcut device on final verso. (Scattered foxing.) binding: Contemporary brown Bolognese morocco (165 x 105 mm), by the S. Petronio Binder (Hobson, "Bookbinding in Bologna"), three blind fillets around sides, rectangular frame composed of single gilt fillet flanked by three blind fillets, miter to fillets around sides, in center a gilt cupid surrounded by gilt leafy tendrils to form a lozenge-shaped cartouche with trefoil at four sides, above and below PONPONIVS* [sic] and *MELA* in gilt, and an pomegranate tool at inner angles, traces of four pairs of ties, spine with raised bands in four compartments with saltires in blind, plain edges stained blue. (Gilding refreshed.) provenance: Sebastiano Canterzani (1734-1819), oval exlibris, inscribed "Canterzani" in ink — Giambattista Canterzani (1767-1846); probably Catalogo della libreria privata Canterzani esistente in Bologna via Toresotto di San Martino n. 1483: da vendersi in dettaglio (Bologna 1847), p. 81 (as "Florentiae, haer. Juntae, 1518 in 8.vo B11"); Sale catalog of personal library of Giambattista Canterzani (1767-1846), consisting primarily of collection inherited from his father, Sebastiano Canterzani (1734-1819), professor of astronomy, mathematics and physics at the University of Bologna — Giacomo Manzoni (1816-1889), exlibris — Sangiorgi, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Comte Jacques Manzoni..., Rome, 8 May-6 June 1893, lot 4764 ("Impressum Florentiae, per haeredes Philippi Iuntae. 1519, in8, Iolie. rel. du temps: dos endom.") — George Dunn (1865-1912), exlibris; his sale, Sotheby's London, 2-6 February 1914, lot 1504 — Francis Edwards, London, purchased in previous sale (£7) — Maggs Bros., Catalogue 324 (London 1914), item 8 (£14 14s); Catalogue 380 (London 1919), item 2178 (£14 14s); Catalogue 437 (London 1923), item 398 (£16 16s); Catalogue 489 (London 1927), item 240 and Pl. CXV (£16 16s); Catalogue 509 (London 1928), item 1934 and Pl. VIII (£16 16s "… From the library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead") — Librairie Gumuchian et Cie, Catalogue 12 (Paris 1930), item 59 and Pl. 30 — Tammaro De Marinis, La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI (Florence 1960), no. 1752 — Kenneth Nebenzahl, Catalogue 8 (Chicago 1961), item 118 & Frontispiece ($500; "A magnificent copy in an important contemporary Florentine binding of blind and goldtooled brown morocco. … This copy is from the libraries of Canterzani, Jacobi Manzoni and George Dunn of Woolley Hall, with their bookplates"). acquisition: Purchased from Stéphane Clavreuil Rare Books, London, 2018. references: Renouard XLIV/44; Edit16 80163, 28751; USTC 841940; Decia & Delfiol p. 104 no. 114; Anthony Hobson "Bookbinding in Bologna" in Schede umanistiche, n.s., 1 (1998), pp. 147-175 (p. 160, as "The 'S. Petronio Binder', c. 1522-1551"); Anthony Hobson and Leonardo Quaquarelli, Legature bolognesi del rinascimento (Bologna 1998), p. 19