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MARIANI, Giovanni (fl.1531). Tariffa perpetua con le ragion fatte per scontro de qualunque mercadante si voglia. Venice: Francesco Rampazetto for the author, 1567. 8° (149 x 75mm). Two titles within a woodcut architectural border, Mariani's woodcut cypher on recto of last leaf, on the verso an illustration of the Virgin and Child within a border composed of 8 blocks, two of stylised decoration, the others with portraits of the four evangelists and the Eagle of St John and the Ox of St Luke. (Without final blank, title mounted and slightly shaved at the foremargin, slight worming in the last 6 leaves just touching a few letters). Later vellum.
Probably the fourth of about ten editions of this bestseller printed between 1553 and 1593 by Giovanni Mariani, an official in the camere degl'Imprestiti. The book was chiefly written, as Mariani informs us in the preface, for merchants without warehouses, who are constrained to carry on their business while carrying their goods with them. At the end there is a short treatise on weights and measures. Riccardi I (2) 115. OCLC locates only the copy at the Folger Library.
Probably the fourth of about ten editions of this bestseller printed between 1553 and 1593 by Giovanni Mariani, an official in the camere degl'Imprestiti. The book was chiefly written, as Mariani informs us in the preface, for merchants without warehouses, who are constrained to carry on their business while carrying their goods with them. At the end there is a short treatise on weights and measures. Riccardi I (2) 115. OCLC locates only the copy at the Folger Library.