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COSIMO II -- Esequie fatte in Venetia dalla natione fiorentina al serenissimo Cosimo II [Oratione di Giulio Strozzi recitata da lui in Venetia]. Venice: Ciotti, 1621.
2°. 2 parts. 2 engraved titles, portrait of Cosimo II and 16 full-page engraved illustrations in the text, woodcut device on last page. (Illustrations offset onto facing pages of text.) Later 17th-century limp vellum. Provenance: Piero Ginori Conti (bookplate)
FIRST EDITION of an uncommon funeral book. Eight of the illustrations are of allegorical paintings by Mattio Ingoli hanging in the Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in which the service was held. Vinet 609.
2°. 2 parts. 2 engraved titles, portrait of Cosimo II and 16 full-page engraved illustrations in the text, woodcut device on last page. (Illustrations offset onto facing pages of text.) Later 17th-century limp vellum. Provenance: Piero Ginori Conti (bookplate)
FIRST EDITION of an uncommon funeral book. Eight of the illustrations are of allegorical paintings by Mattio Ingoli hanging in the Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in which the service was held. Vinet 609.