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[Nanni, Giovanni]. Berosi sacerdotis Chaldaici, antiquitatum libri quinque. Cum commentariis Joannis Annii Viterbensis, Wittenberg: Martin Henckel at the expense of Samuel Seelfisch, 1612, moderate browning and damp-staining, quires K-O with small stain and resulting friability to fore margins, later vellum (probably c.1700), dust-soiled, 8vo (17.5 x 10.6 cm), together with: Gelli (Giovanni Battista , Caprici del Bottaio ... nuovaemente corretta, ed emendata dal Livi Legge, Venice: Marco degli Alberti, 1604, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, marked, 8vo (14.1 x 9.8 cm), Gabrieli (Angelo), Lettere di complimi semplici, Rome: Antonio Landini: 1640, bound with: Visdomi (Francesco, & others), Lettere del Visdomini, Lanfranco, Gabrielli e d'altri nobilissimi ingegni. Scelte, e di nuovo ristampato, Rome: Antonio Landini, 1639, 2 works in 1 volume, first work in 2 parts, leaves largely unopened, contemporary limp vellum, 12mo (14 x 7.4 cm), Bartoli (Daniello), Della ortografia italiana, Venice: Lorenzo Basegio, 1699, minor printing flaw to C8, old inscription to title-page, front inner hinge broken (binding held by endbands), contemporary vellum, loss to vellum on rear cover, 12mo (14.3 x 8.4 cm), and 2 others, 17th-century continental imprints, contepmorary vellum, 12mo (Qty: 6) Provenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Giovanni Nanni's notorious collection of forged Greek and Roman texts, falsely attributed to Berosus and others, was originally printed in 1498. Gelli's Capricci, a series of philosophical dialogues, was first printed in 1546.