MONTE SIMONCELLI, Baldovino di. Il Simoncello, o vero della caccia. Florence: Zanobi Pignoni, 1616. 4° (230 x 160mm). Engraved arms on title. (Some spotting and browning, tiny wormtracks on final leaf.) 20th-century red morocco by V. Arias with gilt arms of the Duque de Almazan within gilt border, gilt spine, turn-ins and edges (light rubbing and fading). Provenance: Duque de Almazan (binding).
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MONTE SIMONCELLI, Baldovino di. Il Simoncello, o vero della caccia. Florence: Zanobi Pignoni, 1616. 4° (230 x 160mm). Engraved arms on title. (Some spotting and browning, tiny wormtracks on final leaf.) 20th-century red morocco by V. Arias with gilt arms of the Duque de Almazan within gilt border, gilt spine, turn-ins and edges (light rubbing and fading). Provenance: Duque de Almazan (binding).

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MONTE SIMONCELLI, Baldovino di. Il Simoncello, o vero della caccia. Florence: Zanobi Pignoni, 1616. 4° (230 x 160mm). Engraved arms on title. (Some spotting and browning, tiny wormtracks on final leaf.) 20th-century red morocco by V. Arias with gilt arms of the Duque de Almazan within gilt border, gilt spine, turn-ins and edges (light rubbing and fading). Provenance: Duque de Almazan (binding).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE ITALIAN TREATISE ON HUNTING. Only the sale of the Jeanson copy is recorded in ABPC, two other sales (in 1954 and 1931) are recorded in AE. Ceresoli p. 367: ‘Edizione originale, rara e ricercata, di classica opera venatoria’; Schwerdt II, p. 33
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