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BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Urbano, Venice 1530; and 5 others, sixteenth and seventeenth century titles...

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BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Urbano, Venice 1530; and 5 others, sixteenth and seventeenth century titles...

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BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI)
Urbano, title printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of the author, title shaved touching first word of title, thin trail of worming touching letters to opening 8 leaves, small ink stain to final 2 leaves [not in Adams], [Venice, Nicolo Zoppino], 1530--TERENTIANUS (MAURUS). De literis, syllabis, pedibvs, ac metris, woodcut device on title, large woodcut initial on opening leaf of text, section of fore-edge of title torn away (with loss to a few words of imprint and touching device, repaired with blank paper), small trace of worming in upper right corner touching letters on several pages [not in Adams], Venice, Mapheum Pasinum, & Franciscum Bindonum, December 1533--MONGITORE (ANTONINO) Monumenta historica sacrae Domus Mansionis SS. Trinitatis, small loss to head of spine, 4to, Palermo, J.B. Aiccardo, 1721, all later vellum, some soiling, unless otherwise stated all 8vo (6)
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Urbano is a suppositious work which, according to Sander, should be attributed to Giovanni Bonsignori.
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BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Urbano, Venice 1530; and 5 others, sixteenth and seventeenth century titles...

Name: BOCCACCIO (GIOVANNI) Urbano, Venice 1530; and 5 others, sixteenth and seventeenth century titles...
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