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BUONANNI E COLONNA, Giacomo, Duke of Montalbano. Dell'antica Siracusa...libri due, Messina: Pietro Brea, 1624.
4° (196 x 142mm.), additional engraved title, engraved arms of the dedicatee, Francesco di Castro, conte di Lemos on printed title (engraved title cut out and mounted and slightly defective at lower fore-corner, last leaf supplied from another copy and with a short tear in the inner margin and a few wormholes, all affecting text very slightly, both headlines on N1 shaved, some staining and spotting), contemporary vellum. Provenance: Frederick Seymour (signature, dated 1875, on an endpaper and a few marginalia in pencil)
THE RARE FIRST EDITION of Buonanni's exhaustive account of Syracuse in classical times; largely topographical, there are also extensive biographical passages. A folio edition in two volumes appeared almost a hundred years later. BM STC 17th-century Italian I, pp.161-62; Mira I, p.115 'Prima e rara edizione'.
4° (196 x 142mm.), additional engraved title, engraved arms of the dedicatee, Francesco di Castro, conte di Lemos on printed title (engraved title cut out and mounted and slightly defective at lower fore-corner, last leaf supplied from another copy and with a short tear in the inner margin and a few wormholes, all affecting text very slightly, both headlines on N1 shaved, some staining and spotting), contemporary vellum. Provenance: Frederick Seymour (signature, dated 1875, on an endpaper and a few marginalia in pencil)
THE RARE FIRST EDITION of Buonanni's exhaustive account of Syracuse in classical times; largely topographical, there are also extensive biographical passages. A folio edition in two volumes appeared almost a hundred years later. BM STC 17th-century Italian I, pp.161-62; Mira I, p.115 'Prima e rara edizione'.
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