Lot n° 553
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[SAMBIGUCIUS & BOCCHIUS]. - Gavini Sambigvcii sardi // Sassa - Lot 553
[SAMBIGUCIUS & BOCCHIUS]. - Gavini Sambigvcii sardi // Sassarensis in Hermathenam // Bocchiam Interpretatio [...]. Bononiae Apud Antonium Manutium Aldi filium, M. D. L. VI [Bologna, Aldus Manutius, 1556]. -- [BOCCHIUS (Achile)]. Achillis Bocchii
// Bonon. Symbolicarvm // Qvæstionvm de Vniverso // genere qvas serio lvdebat Libri Qvinqve. Bononiae In Aedib. Novae Academiae
Bocchianae, M. D. LV. [Bologna, 1555]. 2 titles in a small old in-4° volume (138 x 193 mm), glazed havana calf, double framing of gilded fillets decorating the plates, small fleuron
at the corners and large diamond-shaped motif in the center, spine decorated with nerves, gilt edges (binding of the time).
-- FIRST EDITION.
- 161 pp. (including title) + [3] pp. (index and errata).
-- 194 ff. (of 202) [α]2, *4, [**]4, a-e4, A-Z4 & AA-VV4 (theoretical composition of the work).
Some Greek text in the introductory leaves of the second work.
Aldine anchor on title; - one intaglio figure in text and ornate lettering; -- one vignette (with ox skull entitled "Victoria et labore") in liminal leaves, 150 copper-engraved figures by Giulio BONASONE, including a portrait of the author at head & 142 emblems (out of 149, numbered 1 to 146 & 149 to 150); ornate
decorated.
Spine damaged with restorations; spotting and a few small tears without missing; 8 ff. lacking in the --: pp. 99 to 102, 129
and 130 (beginning of Book III), 249 and 250, 303 and 304, 315 and 316, 341 and 342 & 347 and 348 (with end of text [commentary on fig. 151] & mention " Libri Quinti [...] Finis " in v°), including figures 49, 50, 63, 120, 135, 139 & 149; 20 ff. of index and errata erroneously bound in at the head of the work; the leaf bearing the dedication to Pope Paul III has been inverted with respect to its couplet and the 2 ff. bearing the vignette entitled "Victoria et labore" have been misplaced by the binder (and should be found just after the portrait).
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