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LUCIANUS Samosatensis (c. 120-c. 190 A.D.). Gli dilettevoli dialogi, le vere narrationi. Venice: Bernardin Bindoni, 1543. 8° (150 x 95mm). Title within woodcut border, 30 woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials, printer's device on final leaf. (Title remargined, occasional light soiling.) 19th-century quarter vellum, cloth boards, gilt and gauffeured edges (light staining to spine). Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941.
LUCIANUS Samosatensis (c. 120-c. 190 A.D.). Gli dilettevoli dialogi, le vere narrationi. Venice: Bernardin Bindoni, 1543. 8° (150 x 95mm). Title within woodcut border, 30 woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials, printer's device on final leaf. (Title remargined, occasional light soiling.) 19th-century quarter vellum, cloth boards, gilt and gauffeured edges (light staining to spine). Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941.

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LUCIANUS Samosatensis (c. 120-c. 190 A.D.). Gli dilettevoli dialogi, le vere narrationi. Venice: Bernardin Bindoni, 1543. 8° (150 x 95mm). Title within woodcut border, 30 woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials, printer's device on final leaf. (Title remargined, occasional light soiling.) 19th-century quarter vellum, cloth boards, gilt and gauffeured edges (light staining to spine). Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1941.

A TRANSLATION WITH FINE WOODCUTS, first published in Venice in 1525. Only one on-line holding in Italian libraries, and no recent sale showing in ABPC/AE. Brunet III, 1213.

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