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SAN MARTINO, Matteo di, Count. Le Osservazioni grammaticali e poetiche della lingua italiana, Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1555.
Small 8° (146 x 92mm.), woodcut historiated initials, errata on verso of final text leaf (first few leaves very lightly soiled), 19th-century vellum-backed buff paper boards, flat spine gilt with maroon leather lettering-pieces (lightly soiled). Provenance: Melzi (pencilled ascription).
FIRST EDITION. Gamba 1634: 'La miglior parte però di questo libro risguarda le Osservazioni poetiche, spezialmente fatte intorno al Petrarca.'
Small 8° (146 x 92mm.), woodcut historiated initials, errata on verso of final text leaf (first few leaves very lightly soiled), 19th-century vellum-backed buff paper boards, flat spine gilt with maroon leather lettering-pieces (lightly soiled). Provenance: Melzi (pencilled ascription).
FIRST EDITION. Gamba 1634: 'La miglior parte però di questo libro risguarda le Osservazioni poetiche, spezialmente fatte intorno al Petrarca.'
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