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BELLORI, Giovanne Pietro (1636?-1700). Veterum illustrium philosophorum poetarum rhetorum et oratorum imagines. Rome: J. de Rossi, 1685. Engraved frontispiece, 3 divisional titles and 92 plates. (Light waterstaining at upper inner corners.) Cicognara 2765. [Bound with:] Claude François MENESTRIES. Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua ... exposita...Cui accessere Lucae Holstenij epistola ... de fulcris, seu verubus Dianae...Io. Petri Bellorij notae in numismata.... Ibid., 1688. 3 parts. 24 engraved plates, half-title. (First 4 leaves rather browned, a little waterstaining in upper margins.)
2 works in one volume, 2° (333 x 219mm). Contemporary Dutch (?) goatskin, gilt spine, triple gilt fillet round sides, a fleuron corner-piece dividing the outer from the inner two fillets, at centre THE ARMS OF JAMES II, gilt turn-ins, edges gilt over marbling (split at head of upper hinge), enclosed in a red levant morocco case. Provenance: James II (binding); Andrew Lumisden (engraved bookplate by R. Strange, Jacobite and antiquary); Mortimer L. Schiff (leather bookplate, sold at Sotheby's 5 July 1938, lot 615, for £44 to Sawyer).
2 works in one volume, 2° (333 x 219mm). Contemporary Dutch (?) goatskin, gilt spine, triple gilt fillet round sides, a fleuron corner-piece dividing the outer from the inner two fillets, at centre THE ARMS OF JAMES II, gilt turn-ins, edges gilt over marbling (split at head of upper hinge), enclosed in a red levant morocco case. Provenance: James II (binding); Andrew Lumisden (engraved bookplate by R. Strange, Jacobite and antiquary); Mortimer L. Schiff (leather bookplate, sold at Sotheby's 5 July 1938, lot 615, for £44 to Sawyer).
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