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TESAURO, Emanuel. De Regno d'Italia sotto i barbari epitome, con le annotationi dell' abbate Valeriano Castiglione. Turin: Bartolomeo Zanatta, 1663.
2° (344 x 230mm). Letterpress half-title. Engraved title, 3 section titles, 3 double-page maps and 63 plates (including 59 portraits of the Kings of Italy), numerous decorative woodcut initials and tailpieces. (Occasional light browning.) Presentation binding, contemporary Italian red morocco gilt, covers with centrally-placed cardinal's arms, within an octagonal ruled and roll-tooled frame and various panels delineated by fillets, roll-tools and simple volute tools, eight of these with overall decoration of lozenges and small flame tools, the cornerpieces and four remaining panels with styllised flower and foliage decoration, all within an outer decorative border made up from fillets and roll-tools, the flat spine with a single panel of fillets, flower and dog-tooth rolls enclosing an area with overall decoration using a lozenge-shaped tool, g.e. (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Author's presentation copy to an unidentified Cardinal ('Authoris donum' inscription at foot of title, binding); Monsieur de Belombre, Lieutenant-Général d'Epée (label on half-title).
A very finely bound copy of a typographically interesting work. Another presentation binding from the same atelier, sharing a number of tools and many of the same design elements, produced for Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (later Pope Alexander VIII) was sold in these rooms, 3 October 1990, lot 380 (illustrated) and tentatively assigned to the 'Rosspigliosi' bindery.
2° (344 x 230mm). Letterpress half-title. Engraved title, 3 section titles, 3 double-page maps and 63 plates (including 59 portraits of the Kings of Italy), numerous decorative woodcut initials and tailpieces. (Occasional light browning.) Presentation binding, contemporary Italian red morocco gilt, covers with centrally-placed cardinal's arms, within an octagonal ruled and roll-tooled frame and various panels delineated by fillets, roll-tools and simple volute tools, eight of these with overall decoration of lozenges and small flame tools, the cornerpieces and four remaining panels with styllised flower and foliage decoration, all within an outer decorative border made up from fillets and roll-tools, the flat spine with a single panel of fillets, flower and dog-tooth rolls enclosing an area with overall decoration using a lozenge-shaped tool, g.e. (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Author's presentation copy to an unidentified Cardinal ('Authoris donum' inscription at foot of title, binding); Monsieur de Belombre, Lieutenant-Général d'Epée (label on half-title).
A very finely bound copy of a typographically interesting work. Another presentation binding from the same atelier, sharing a number of tools and many of the same design elements, produced for Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (later Pope Alexander VIII) was sold in these rooms, 3 October 1990, lot 380 (illustrated) and tentatively assigned to the 'Rosspigliosi' bindery.