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STRACCA, Benvenuto. Tractatus de Mercatura, seu Mercatore, omnia quae ad hoc genus pertinent... huc accessit... Petri Santernae Lusitani Tractatus de Sponsionibus & Assecurationibus mercatorum. Venice: Michele Bonelli, 1575 [colophon: 1576].
8° (149 x 99mm). Collation: a-e, A-Z Aa-Yy8. Woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf. (Paperfaults in B1, Q7 and Pp7 with resultant small tears just affecting the text.) Later marbled boards, morocco lettering-piece on spine. Provenance: Three early ownership inscriptions on title; Dr. Guglielmo Baccarini (book-label).
First combined edition of Stracca's treatise on commerce and mercantile law, and of the FIRST BOOK ON INSURANCE, by the Portuguese Pedro Santerna. RARE. The two works had first appeared separately in Venice in 1552 and 1553 respectively.
8° (149 x 99mm). Collation: a-e, A-Z Aa-Yy8. Woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf. (Paperfaults in B1, Q7 and Pp7 with resultant small tears just affecting the text.) Later marbled boards, morocco lettering-piece on spine. Provenance: Three early ownership inscriptions on title; Dr. Guglielmo Baccarini (book-label).
First combined edition of Stracca's treatise on commerce and mercantile law, and of the FIRST BOOK ON INSURANCE, by the Portuguese Pedro Santerna. RARE. The two works had first appeared separately in Venice in 1552 and 1553 respectively.