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BODONI PRESS.-- Ennio Quirino VISCONTI. Osservazioni su due Musaici Antichi istoriati. Parma: Bodoni, 1788. Large 8 (234 x 164 mm). 2 engraved plates. Contemporary red calf, gilt dentelle with arms of Thomas Astle in centre and each corner, spine gilt with classical ornaments, inner gilt dentelle, contemporary endpapers, g.e. (spine restored, corners bumped). Provenance: Thomas Astle (1735-1803, antiquary, with 2 leaves of manuscript notes bound in at end). Brooks 359. One of 175 copies.
CALLIMACHUS. Calimaco Greco-Italiano ora pubblicato, Parma: Bodoni, 1792. 2, engraved vignette of coat-of-arms, 17 engraved headpieces by Patrini after E. Ferrari, good wide margins (lacking the blank before the Italian text, lightly spotted, stronger at beginning and end, lower margin lightly dampstained throughout), later half morocco (extremities rubbed), g.e. Brooks 440.
Severinus BOETHIUS. Della Consolazione della Filosofia. tradotto in Volgar Fiorentino da Benedetto Varchi. Parma: Reale Tipographia [Bodoni], 1798. Large 4 (310 x 222mm). Final blank, title-page with engraved printer's device pasted on, uncut. Modern half-calf. Brooks 725; and another work from the Bodoni Press, Franois Duc de la Rochefoucauld's Maximes et rflexions morales (Parma, 1811). (4)
CALLIMACHUS. Calimaco Greco-Italiano ora pubblicato, Parma: Bodoni, 1792. 2, engraved vignette of coat-of-arms, 17 engraved headpieces by Patrini after E. Ferrari, good wide margins (lacking the blank before the Italian text, lightly spotted, stronger at beginning and end, lower margin lightly dampstained throughout), later half morocco (extremities rubbed), g.e. Brooks 440.
Severinus BOETHIUS. Della Consolazione della Filosofia. tradotto in Volgar Fiorentino da Benedetto Varchi. Parma: Reale Tipographia [Bodoni], 1798. Large 4 (310 x 222mm). Final blank, title-page with engraved printer's device pasted on, uncut. Modern half-calf. Brooks 725; and another work from the Bodoni Press, Franois Duc de la Rochefoucauld's Maximes et rflexions morales (Parma, 1811). (4)