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BINDING -- Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis. Venice: Balleoniana, 1769.
8° (197 x 113mm). Engraved title vignette, two engraved plates. Contemporary Italian red morocco gilt, covers with exuberant rocaille decoration heightened with two different shades of turquoise paint, spine in six compartments with raised bands, each with repeat decoration made up from flower and foliage tools, decorated paper pastedowns, g.e. Provenance: David Minelli, Bononia (booklabel); Maurice Burrus (bookplate, dated 1937); Prince Sczianecki (blue leather armorial booklabel).
A very fine binding, in excellent condition, embodying the late flowering of Italian Roccoco.
8° (197 x 113mm). Engraved title vignette, two engraved plates. Contemporary Italian red morocco gilt, covers with exuberant rocaille decoration heightened with two different shades of turquoise paint, spine in six compartments with raised bands, each with repeat decoration made up from flower and foliage tools, decorated paper pastedowns, g.e. Provenance: David Minelli, Bononia (booklabel); Maurice Burrus (bookplate, dated 1937); Prince Sczianecki (blue leather armorial booklabel).
A very fine binding, in excellent condition, embodying the late flowering of Italian Roccoco.