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La montagna circea torneamento nel passaggio della Sereniss. Duchessa Donna Margherita Aldobrandina sposa del Sereniss. Ranuccio Farnese Duca di Parma, e Piacenza, FIRST EDITION, title within 2-line fillet border, text leaves within 1-line border, one folding woodcut plate, the central stage cut out as issued allowing for three woodcuts mounted on sheets tipped on to the verso to change the scenes, etching of a rhinoceros on N2v, title with some losses to upper margin and lower-fore-edge (repaired with 4 letters of text and small area of line border supplied in neat ink facsimile), twentieth century blue pasteboards [Cicognara 1407], small 4to (195 x 142mm.), Bologna, heirs of Giovanni Rossi, 1600
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RARE FESTIVAL BOOK, ILLUSTRATED WITH A PLATE WITH MOVEABLE PARTS, commemorating the entry into Bologna of Margherita Aldobrandini (1588-1646), niece of Pope Clement VIII, shortly after her marriage to Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza. The large woodcut depicts the set of a play performed for the occasion, the central panel cut out to allow the reader to change the scenery, using one of the three smaller woodcuts tipped to the verso of the sheet.
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