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COLONNA, FRANCESCO. Le Tableau des Riches Inventions couvertes du Voile de Feintes Amoureuses, qui sont représentées dans le Songe de Poliphile.
COLONNA, FRANCESCO. Le Tableau des Riches Inventions couvertes du Voile de Feintes Amoureuses, qui sont représentées dans le Songe de Poliphile. Dévoilées des Ombres du Songe, & subtilement exposées par [François] Béroalde [de Verville]. Over 180 woodcut illustrations. [19] (of [20]), 154, [6] leaves, including engraved title (mounted); lacks blank 5*4. 4to, late 18th-/early 19th-century 1/2 sheep gilt, spine worn, chipped at top; contents browned, marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, clean tears in C1 and 2O4, the latter with crude partial repair, lacks front free endpaper. Paris: Matthieu Guillemot, 1600 [i. e., after 1610]
- Notes: first béroalde de verville edition of one of the most famous illustrated books of the Renaissance; later issue, with headpiece on *2r and 2Q3r incorporating arms and crowned monogram of Louis XIII, thus published after 1610. "It is this edition, with its new title-page and preface, which formally introduces the work into the literature of alchemy" (Mortimer). Colonna's enigmatic dream narrative was originally published in 1499 in Latin as Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Harvard/Mortimer-French 148.
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