Lot n° 168  | Auction 519

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Auction: 21 September 2021 at 10:30

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PLINIO, Gaio Secondo (23-79 d.C.) - Historia naturale tradotta per M. Lodovico Domenichi con le postille in margine. Venice: Alessandro Griffio, 1580. A good copy of this vulgar translation of this classic of scientific literature by Lodovico Domenichi (1515-1564), Italian translator and scholar renown for being part of the Ortolani academy and for his friendship with Aretino. . 4to (200 x 144mm). Printer's device on title, woodcut headpieces and initials (occasional light browning, few tiny wormholes). Later vellum, gilt title on spine, marbled edges (few small wormholes and rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Faustino Negrini Rhodigino (17th-century ownership inscription on the title and its verso and a few annotations) - Morazini (ownership inscription?).


Estimate € 500 - 800

Sold € 450

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