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GIUSTINIANI, Bernardo. Historie chronologiche della vera origine di tutti gl'ordini equestri, e religiosi cavalleresche. Venice: Combi & La Noù, 1672. 4° (251 x 175mm). Engraved frontispiece, two portraits (of the dedicatee and the author) and five plates, all by Sister Isabella Piccini, 146 woodcut insignia within ornamental borders, woodcut tailpieces and decorations. Old vellum (with occasional small tears or wormholes). FIRST EDITION of this history of the equestrian orders. Isabella Piccini was a Venetian nun, and is chiefly known from her book illustrations. Lipperheide Of 7.
Giovanni Giacomo CROTTO. Oratio... qua deflet Nicolaum Lucarum oratorem facundissimum. Pavia: Giacomo de Borgofranco, 10 February 1518. 4° (208 x 146mm). With final blank. Woodcut border to title, two woodcut initials. Modern boards. RARE: there are apparently only three other copies recorded of this funeral oration for the celebrated orator Nicolaus Lucarus, delivered by Crotto, one of his pupils. Sander 2253. (2)
Giovanni Giacomo CROTTO. Oratio... qua deflet Nicolaum Lucarum oratorem facundissimum. Pavia: Giacomo de Borgofranco, 10 February 1518. 4° (208 x 146mm). With final blank. Woodcut border to title, two woodcut initials. Modern boards. RARE: there are apparently only three other copies recorded of this funeral oration for the celebrated orator Nicolaus Lucarus, delivered by Crotto, one of his pupils. Sander 2253. (2)