SIMEONI, Gabriello. The illustrious antique observations of - Lot 288

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SIMEONI, Gabriello. The illustrious antique observations of - Lot 288
SIMEONI, Gabriello. The illustrious antique observations of the Florentine lord Gabriel Symeon in his last voyage of Italy the year 1557, Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1558. Small in-4 (217 x 155 mm) of [16], 134 p., 1 bl. f. [Sig. A-B4, a-r4], woodcut portrait of Simeoni on title page, 35 small woodcut medallions and 15 illustrations in the text (also woodcut), long spine, manuscript title. Soft vellum (later binding in imitation). A very good copy with good margins in a very good imitation binding in soft vellum (very pale and marginal spotting, slight browning). A very beautiful and beautifully printed work with a remarkable layout. Illustrated with a beautiful architectural cartouche containing the author's portrait on the title, an elegant headband representing the triumph of Diana, 51 woodcuts reproducing ancient steles, inscriptions, medals and statues, and 12 woodcuts of the signs of the zodiac. Bernard Salomon is the author of some vignettes (in particular the Fountain of Vaucluse, the Fountain of Anet and the Metamorphosis of Actaeon). First edition, published before the Italian edition. Provenance: ex-libris label on upper flyleaf, with the arms of the Kerchove family (Flanders). Brun, 294; Mortimer, Harvard cat. 497; Cartier 420; Brunet, V, 392.
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