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MELI, Antonio. Libro de uita contemplatiua: lectione: meditatione: oratione: contemplatione: scala dil paradiso intitulato ... Brescia: Giovanni Antonio Morandi, 28 June 1527.
4° (214 x 145mm). Large woodcut on title-page within an attractive border, full-page woodcut of St. Augustine on the verso (repeated on f.22v), another full-page woodcut on f.8v, large historiated initial C within a woodcut border on a1r (cut close at the top margin), same initial within another woodcut border on t6v, same border around c2v (but reversed), 113 woodcuts of varying sizes (including repeats) in the text. Contemporary Italian calf, blindstamped spine, wide blindstamped border round sides with infilled cornerpieces, gilt Calvary cross in gilt at centre of sides (repairs at spine). Provenance: [Victor Massena, Price d'Essling]: Giuseppe Martini (pencilled collation and note stating the copy to have been Prince d'Essling's).
Only edition of this handsomely printed and illustrated book, one of only a few printed at Brescia by Morandi. Sander 4489.
4° (214 x 145mm). Large woodcut on title-page within an attractive border, full-page woodcut of St. Augustine on the verso (repeated on f.22v), another full-page woodcut on f.8v, large historiated initial C within a woodcut border on a1r (cut close at the top margin), same initial within another woodcut border on t6v, same border around c2v (but reversed), 113 woodcuts of varying sizes (including repeats) in the text. Contemporary Italian calf, blindstamped spine, wide blindstamped border round sides with infilled cornerpieces, gilt Calvary cross in gilt at centre of sides (repairs at spine). Provenance: [Victor Massena, Price d'Essling]: Giuseppe Martini (pencilled collation and note stating the copy to have been Prince d'Essling's).
Only edition of this handsomely printed and illustrated book, one of only a few printed at Brescia by Morandi. Sander 4489.