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[DONZELLINI (Girolamo). Epistolae principum, rerumpublicarum…
See original version (French)
383
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[DONZELLINI (Girolamo). Epistolae principum, rerumpublicarum…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
[DONZELLINI (Girolamo). Epistolae principum, rerumpublicarum, ac sapientum virorum. Ex antiquis & recentioribus, tàm Graecis, quàm Latinis Historiis & annalibus collectae [...]. Venetiis, Apud Jordanum Zilettum, 1574. In-12, ivory vellum, traces of lakes (contemporary binding).
[XXVIII] + 418 + [II (blank)] pp.
ORIGINAL EDITION ("Nunquam antea editum") of this collection of letters by authors from Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, intended to educate sovereigns on how to govern. Several of the letters are fictitious and appear to have been written by the publisher himself, the Venetian physician and philosopher Girolamo Donzellini.
Handwritten bookplate on title & long old annotations on endpapers.
Small loss of vellum on the second cover; some light marginal spotting.
See original version (French)
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