RICCHI, Agostino. Comedia, intittolata I Tre Tiranni, recitata in Bologna a N. Signore, et a Cesare, il giorno de la commemoratione de la Corona di sua Maestà. Venice: Bernardino de Vitali, 14th September 1533. 4° (205 x 150 mm.). Italic types. 3 engraved plates of stage-sets, printer's woodcut device. 19th-century English calf gilt (joints broken, worn). Provenance: George Spencer, Marquess of Blandford (White Knights sale 1819); Richard Heber (purchased through Triphook, stamp); Robert Samuel Turner (bookplate); Edward Francis Searles (bookplate). - Paulo GIOVIO (1483-1552, Bishop of Nocera, the elder). Dialogo dell' Imprese Militari et Amorose. Con un ragionamento di M. Lodovico Domenichi. Lyons: Guillaume Rouillé, 1574. 8° (168 x 107 mm.). Woodcut author's portrait, printer's device, 136 emblematic woodcuts. (Lacking last leaf, presumably blank, some staining.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance: Edward Francis Searles (bookplate). (2)

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RICCHI, Agostino. Comedia, intittolata I Tre Tiranni, recitata in Bologna a N. Signore, et a Cesare, il giorno de la commemoratione de la Corona di sua Maestà. Venice: Bernardino de Vitali, 14th September 1533. 4° (205 x 150 mm.). Italic types. 3 engraved plates of stage-sets, printer's woodcut device. 19th-century English calf gilt (joints broken, worn). Provenance: George Spencer, Marquess of Blandford (White Knights sale 1819); Richard Heber (purchased through Triphook, stamp); Robert Samuel Turner (bookplate); Edward Francis Searles (bookplate). - Paulo GIOVIO (1483-1552, Bishop of Nocera, the elder). Dialogo dell' Imprese Militari et Amorose. Con un ragionamento di M. Lodovico Domenichi. Lyons: Guillaume Rouillé, 1574. 8° (168 x 107 mm.). Woodcut author's portrait, printer's device, 136 emblematic woodcuts. (Lacking last leaf, presumably blank, some staining.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance: Edward Francis Searles (bookplate). (2)

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