![SCANDIANESE, Tito Giovanni [i.e. Tito GANZARINI]. I quattro libri della caccia. Venice: Gabriel Giolito et Fratelli, 1556. 4° (206 x 148mm). 16 woodcut vignettes, woodcut decorations. (Title, A4, B4 and K4 with corner repairs, occasional spotting, light waterstaining and soiling.) 19th-century tree calf gilt by Hijos de Marquez, Seville. Provenance: Friar Andres de St. Maria (inscription on title) – Joaquin M. Abaurre (bookplate).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_10766_0226_000(scandianese_tito_giovanni_ie_tito_ganzarini_i_quattro_libri_della_cacc123444).jpg?w=1)
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SCANDIANESE, Tito Giovanni [i.e. Tito GANZARINI]. I quattro libri della caccia. Venice: Gabriel Giolito et Fratelli, 1556. 4° (206 x 148mm). 16 woodcut vignettes, woodcut decorations. (Title, A4, B4 and K4 with corner repairs, occasional spotting, light waterstaining and soiling.) 19th-century tree calf gilt by Hijos de Marquez, Seville. Provenance: Friar Andres de St. Maria (inscription on title) – Joaquin M. Abaurre (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this illustrated Italian hunting poem with a short treatise on falconry at the end, usually bound with a second part, La sfera di Proclo, not present in this copy. Adams S-604; Brunet II, 1606: ‘bien imprimé et assez rare’; Ceresoli p. 472: ‘rara… una delle più importanti tra le classiche della letteratura venatoria italiana; il secondo poema venatorio in volgare’; Schwerdt I, p. 207; Souhart 421.
FIRST EDITION of this illustrated Italian hunting poem with a short treatise on falconry at the end, usually bound with a second part, La sfera di Proclo, not present in this copy. Adams S-604; Brunet II, 1606: ‘bien imprimé et assez rare’; Ceresoli p. 472: ‘rara… una delle più importanti tra le classiche della letteratura venatoria italiana; il secondo poema venatorio in volgare’; Schwerdt I, p. 207; Souhart 421.
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