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GALLUZZO, Cesare. Il Valoroso Ruggiero, primo Marchese dell'Antica Citta d'Atesta. Ferrara: Giovanni de Boglhat and Antonio Hucher, 6 May 1550.
4° (203 x 147mm). Italic type, device of crowned dragon on title and last page. (Occasional light spotting, a few discreet marginal paper repairs, without final blank leaf.) 19th-century russia, blindstamped corner ornament, spine gilt- and blindstamped, gilt edges (very slightly worn at extremities). Provenance: early inscription washed from title; Richard Heber (bookstamp at end, sale 1834, no. 2849); Charles Butler (pencilled ascription, not in his sale 1832) ; G. Martini (pencilled inscription).
FIRST EDITION. BLSTC Italian, p. 289; Brunet II, 1471; Melzi and Tosi, Bibliografia dei Romanzi di Cavalleria (Milan: 1865), p.162.
4° (203 x 147mm). Italic type, device of crowned dragon on title and last page. (Occasional light spotting, a few discreet marginal paper repairs, without final blank leaf.) 19th-century russia, blindstamped corner ornament, spine gilt- and blindstamped, gilt edges (very slightly worn at extremities). Provenance: early inscription washed from title; Richard Heber (bookstamp at end, sale 1834, no. 2849); Charles Butler (pencilled ascription, not in his sale 1832) ; G. Martini (pencilled inscription).
FIRST EDITION. BLSTC Italian, p. 289; Brunet II, 1471; Melzi and Tosi, Bibliografia dei Romanzi di Cavalleria (Milan: 1865), p.162.