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MONALDESCHI DELLA CERVARA, Monaldo. Comentari historici ... ne' quali oltra a particolari successi della città d'Orvieto & di tutta l'antichissima, & nobilissima provincia della Toscana. Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1584. 4°. Printer's device to title and final leaf, woodcut initials. (Title soiled, a few leaves lightly dampstained, light marginal spotting.) Contemporary boards, manuscript title to spine (recased, tail of spine chipped). Provenance: old inscription to verso of title. Adams M1587; BL STC Italian, p. 444 -- Pier Francesco GIAMBULLARI. Historia dell'Europa. Venice: Francesco Senese, 1566. 4°. Printer's device to title, woodcut portrait of Giambullari to verso, woodcut initials. (Title thumb-soiled, a few margins lightly soiled, occasional light browning.) Modern green half morocco, spine gilt in compartments. BL STC Italian, p. 300 -- Carlo PASSI. La selva di varia istoria. Venice: Giorgio de' Cavalli, 1564. 4°. Woodcut device to title, historiated initials. (A few light spots.) Later calf, gilt arms to covers, spine gilt in compartments and with morocco lettering-piece (head and tail of spine chipped, covers scuffed, rubbed). BL STC Italian, p. 492. With 3 other 16th-century books, including Jacobus Bracellus' De bello Hispaniensi libri quinque (Rome, 1573). (6)