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VECELLIO, CESARE.
Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne.
Volumes 2
and 3 (of 5) in one. [24] (of [28]) and [28] (of [32]) leaves, with full-page white-on-black
woodcut lace patterns throughout; Volume 2 lacks 2B
4
, Volume 3 lacks 3C
4
and 3H
4
, with
3E
4
in duplicate. Oblong 4to, 147x211 mm, modern binding of liturgical manuscript vel-
lum over boards; occasional marginal soiling in both volumes, Volume 2 has early owner’s
doodles on title verso, horizontal stain in blank lower margin of 2A3, and early scrawls in
blank outer margin of 2F2v showing through on recto.
Venice: Cesare Vecellio, 1599
[800/1,200]
The most extensive collection of lace patterns yet published, first appearing from 1591 to 1596
and frequently reprinted. Cf. Lotz 117i and 118 (citing 1598 editions, not noting any dated
1599); no editions dated 1599 in EDIT16, SBN, or OCLC.
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VERGIL, POLYDORE.
Anglicae historiae libri XXVI.
Woodcut historiated
borders on a2r and a3r. [2], 600 [i. e., 610], [48] pages. Folio, 328x216 mm, later calf,
rebacked, lower outer corner of front cover restored; marginal dampstaining at beginning
and end, numerous partly cropped marginalia, title soiled with portion of blank upper mar-
gin excised, printer’s device partly tinted, early owner’s inscription.
Basel: Jo. Bebelius, 1534
[300/500]
FIRST EDITION
.
“Polidoro is remembered today primarily for his Anglica historia, which schol-
ars have seen as the beginning of modern English historiography, as an important piece of
propaganda for the Tudor monarchy, and as an influence on Shakespeare’s history plays”—
Contemporaries of Erasmus III, 339.
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