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GIOVIO, Paolo. Libro...de'pesci romani. Tradotto in volgare da Carlo Zancaruolo. Venice: il Gualtieri, 1560.
Small 4°. Woodcut device on title, with the final blank. (Fore-margin of title slightly stained and with a small hole, a few other very light spots and stains.) Contemporary North-Italian (probably Venetian) dark morocco, gilt ivy-leaf ornament in panels of spine, gilt and blind rules round sides with the same leaf-tool at corners, the whole enclosing a wide gilt interlacing border with infilled cornerpieces, at centre of sides an arabesque made up of scattered tools enclosing, on front cover, a gilt and painted coat-of-arms and, on back cover, the legend "Al chiarissimo S. Girolamo Soranzo" (some of the gilt rubbed away, hinges and corners rubbed, new endpapers), gilt and gauffered edges.
FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. Like other historians outside Tuscany, Paolo Giovo (d. 1552) of Como preferred the Latin language, and this work was first published in 1524 as De Romanis piscibus. The mysterious printer of the Italian edition is not known to have produced any other books. Ascarelli-Menati, p. 407, states that the device, if it is a device, "è del tutto insolita". Gamba 1432 "Bella edizione"; Westbury p. 117.
Small 4°. Woodcut device on title, with the final blank. (Fore-margin of title slightly stained and with a small hole, a few other very light spots and stains.) Contemporary North-Italian (probably Venetian) dark morocco, gilt ivy-leaf ornament in panels of spine, gilt and blind rules round sides with the same leaf-tool at corners, the whole enclosing a wide gilt interlacing border with infilled cornerpieces, at centre of sides an arabesque made up of scattered tools enclosing, on front cover, a gilt and painted coat-of-arms and, on back cover, the legend "Al chiarissimo S. Girolamo Soranzo" (some of the gilt rubbed away, hinges and corners rubbed, new endpapers), gilt and gauffered edges.
FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. Like other historians outside Tuscany, Paolo Giovo (d. 1552) of Como preferred the Latin language, and this work was first published in 1524 as De Romanis piscibus. The mysterious printer of the Italian edition is not known to have produced any other books. Ascarelli-Menati, p. 407, states that the device, if it is a device, "è del tutto insolita". Gamba 1432 "Bella edizione"; Westbury p. 117.