DOLCE, Ludovico (1508-1568). Dialogo nel quale si ragiona del modo di accrescere, et conservar la memoria. Venice: heirs of Melchiorre Sessa by Enea de Alaris, 1575. 8° (150 x 98mm). Woodcut device on title and 23 woodcuts, some full-page. (Marginal repair to final leaf, occasional light browning.) Red morocco by Capé, gilt tools on borders, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance: Lluis Escobet (book label) -- purchased from G.P. de Terpied, 1952.

DOLCE, Ludovico (1508-1568). Dialogo nel quale si ragiona del modo di accrescere, et conservar la memoria. Venice: heirs of Melchiorre Sessa by Enea de Alaris, 1575. 8° (150 x 98mm). Woodcut device on title and 23 woodcuts, some full-page. (Marginal repair to final leaf, occasional light browning.) Red morocco by Capé, gilt tools on borders, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance: Lluis Escobet (book label) -- purchased from G.P. de Terpied, 1952.

Second edition of a work first published in Venice in 1562 by Giovanni Battista and Melchiorre Sessa. The basis for the text and the woodcuts was Host von Romberch's Congestorium artificiose memorie printed in 1520 with blocks designed by Giorgio de' Rusconi. Mortimer, Harvard Italian, 157; Brunet II, 789.