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SABELLICUS, Marcus Antonius (1436-1506). De situ urbis Venetae. - De praetoris officio. - De linguae Latinae reparatione. [Venice: Damianus de Mediolano, de Gorgonzola, ca. 1494].
Chancery 4° (213 x 149 mm). Collation: a-c8 d4 e-g8 h6 (a1r blank, a1v dedicatory letter to Hieronymus Donatus, a2v De Venetae urbis situ, e1r blank, e1v dedicatotry letter to A. Cornarius, e2v De praetoris officio libellus, f4v dedicatory letter to Marcus Antonius Maurocenus, f5v Dialogus qui et Latinae linguae reparatio inscribitur, h5v blank, h6r letter from the author to Antonius Moretus, h6v contents). 58 leaves. 30 lines. Types 4:111R (later state), commentary Greek (h5r). Initial spaces, some with guide letters. (Very light small stain to last two leaves.) Later paper wrappers.
FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST MODERN GUIDE BOOK TO VENICE. Sabellico was appointed keeper of the Biblioteca Marciana after the publication of his important history of Venice, Rerum Venetiarum decades, in 1487. In the present survey of contemporary Venice he describes in detail each of the still existing sestiere (Castello, Cannareggio, Dorsoduro, etc.), providing a brief historical sketch of the district and an account of the principal churches, treasures, monuments, palaces and bridges. Earlier printed descriptions of Venice were either works of Antiquity or consisted of brief sections in more general travel narratives (see for example, Brasca's 1481 Itinerario, lot 17). An Italian translation was published in 1543-44 by Michele Tramezzino as an appendix to L. Fauno's translation of Flavio Biondo's history of Rome.
Damianus de Mediolano, a native of Gorgonzola, a town near Milan, was active in Venice from 1493 through 1495, printing eleven books with material borrowed from De Soardis. Afterwards he moved to Perugia and there printed four recorded editions in the fall of 1500.
HC *14056; BMC V, 544 (IA. 24295); CIBN S-5; IGI 8490; Klebs 871.1; Goff S-8.
Chancery 4° (213 x 149 mm). Collation: a-c8 d4 e-g8 h6 (a1r blank, a1v dedicatory letter to Hieronymus Donatus, a2v De Venetae urbis situ, e1r blank, e1v dedicatotry letter to A. Cornarius, e2v De praetoris officio libellus, f4v dedicatory letter to Marcus Antonius Maurocenus, f5v Dialogus qui et Latinae linguae reparatio inscribitur, h5v blank, h6r letter from the author to Antonius Moretus, h6v contents). 58 leaves. 30 lines. Types 4:111R (later state), commentary Greek (h5r). Initial spaces, some with guide letters. (Very light small stain to last two leaves.) Later paper wrappers.
FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST MODERN GUIDE BOOK TO VENICE. Sabellico was appointed keeper of the Biblioteca Marciana after the publication of his important history of Venice, Rerum Venetiarum decades, in 1487. In the present survey of contemporary Venice he describes in detail each of the still existing sestiere (Castello, Cannareggio, Dorsoduro, etc.), providing a brief historical sketch of the district and an account of the principal churches, treasures, monuments, palaces and bridges. Earlier printed descriptions of Venice were either works of Antiquity or consisted of brief sections in more general travel narratives (see for example, Brasca's 1481 Itinerario, lot 17). An Italian translation was published in 1543-44 by Michele Tramezzino as an appendix to L. Fauno's translation of Flavio Biondo's history of Rome.
Damianus de Mediolano, a native of Gorgonzola, a town near Milan, was active in Venice from 1493 through 1495, printing eleven books with material borrowed from De Soardis. Afterwards he moved to Perugia and there printed four recorded editions in the fall of 1500.
HC *14056; BMC V, 544 (IA. 24295); CIBN S-5; IGI 8490; Klebs 871.1; Goff S-8.