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TOMASINI, Giacomo Filippo. Petrarcha redivivus. Padua: Livio Pasquati and Ciacomo Bortoli, 1635. Small 4° (203 x 141mm). Pictorial engraved additional title, 9 engraved and 9 woodcut portraits and illustrations. (Very small marginal stains to additional and typographical title.) Contemporary red morocco, gilt spine, gilt turn-ins, marbled and gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Mazarine Bibliothèque (ink stamp in margin of title and penultimate leaf) – James Whatman (armorial bookplate) – John Hely-Hutchinson (bookplate dated 1952). [Sold with:] SPENCE, Joseph. A Parallel in the Manner of Plutarch between a most celebrated man of Florence and one scarce ever heard of in England. Strawberry-Hill: William Robinson, 1758. 8° (185 x 112mm). Engraved title vignette. Contemporary red morocco by Kalthoeber, sides panelled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (rubbed). Hazen Strawberry Hill Press 6 ('700 copies printed').
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