PORZIO, Simone. Trattato de Colori de gl'Occhi, translated by Giovam Batista Gelli, Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551, small 8°, FIRST ITALIAN EDITION (a few leaves lightly spotted, a few lower margins wormed, occasional annotations in ink), later vellum boards. [BMC of Italian Books, p. 537; Durling 3743; Wellcome I, 5219]

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PORZIO, Simone. Trattato de Colori de gl'Occhi, translated by Giovam Batista Gelli, Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551, small 8°, FIRST ITALIAN EDITION (a few leaves lightly spotted, a few lower margins wormed, occasional annotations in ink), later vellum boards. [BMC of Italian Books, p. 537; Durling 3743; Wellcome I, 5219]

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"Il Gelli è autore citato dagli Accademici della Crusca. N.B.: La presente Ediz.e è stimata e riccordata dal Gamba" inscription to free endpaper; R. Perutiorum Mediceis Marchioni, bookplate to front endpaper; Libris ex Ios Cavalieri, bookplate to pastedown.

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