(Antiquité, Mythologie) - GIRALDI, Giglio Gregorio.- De deis gentium [...]. Basileae, per Joannem Oporinum, (1548). In-f° : [6]-1/257-263/365-371/764-[68] pp. (blank lvs a4 and AAa4 lacking, two jump paginations, light marginal dampstains, first...
Estimation :
300 / 400
Description
lvs partly unbound, some stains, foxing, marginal wormholes, rare contemporary and modern handwritten notes). 19th Century binding : half calf, marbled paper boards, gilt decorated flat spine, red sprinkled edges (wormholes, spine rubbed, lacks, edges and corners very dulled, handwritten notes on upper pastedown and flyleaf, notice of catalogue on upper flyleaf).
First edition of this history of the ancient gods and goddesses by Giraldi (1479-1552), scholar and poet born at Ferrarra. This work with the "Genealogia deorum gentilium libri" of Giovanni Boccaccio are among the first dealing with mythology. Text decorated with ornemental initial letters figuring the "Alphabet of children" of Hans Holbein the Younger. # Adams G-718; # USTC 629427; # VD16 G 2103; # not in Machiels nor in Soltész. ▲ Provenance : Philippe de Schoutheete de Tervarent (born in 1932), former Belgian senior official (emblazoned ex-libris). T Édition originale de cette histoire des anciens dieux et déesses. Demi-veau du 19e s. (incomplets des ff. a4 and AAa4, mouill. marg. au début, galeries de vers marg., dos frotté, coupes et coins très émoussés).
First edition of this history of the ancient gods and goddesses by Giraldi (1479-1552), scholar and poet born at Ferrarra. This work with the "Genealogia deorum gentilium libri" of Giovanni Boccaccio are among the first dealing with mythology. Text decorated with ornemental initial letters figuring the "Alphabet of children" of Hans Holbein the Younger. # Adams G-718; # USTC 629427; # VD16 G 2103; # not in Machiels nor in Soltész. ▲ Provenance : Philippe de Schoutheete de Tervarent (born in 1932), former Belgian senior official (emblazoned ex-libris). T Édition originale de cette histoire des anciens dieux et déesses. Demi-veau du 19e s. (incomplets des ff. a4 and AAa4, mouill. marg. au début, galeries de vers marg., dos frotté, coupes et coins très émoussés).
