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Group of notable early printed books bound in vellum
Group of notable early printed books bound in vellum
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[EARLY PRINTING]

STRABO. De Situ Orbis Libri XVII. Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1652. Two volumes, period white vellum, hand-lettered spines, yapped edge. 5 1/4 x 2 7/8 inches (13.5 x 7.5 cm); engraved frontispiece, folding engraved map, woodcut title vignette, head- and tail-pieces and initials. Slight soiling to vellum, internally an attractive, clean copy. Viscount Lord Palmerston's copy, with his bookplate; BRACCIO, ALESSANDRO, translator. Historia delle guerre esterne de'romani di Appiano Alessandrino. Prima parte ; tradotta da M. Alessandro Braccio... Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1559. Two volumes, old vellum, covers with the crowned "P" of the Duke of Portland, leather spine labels and shelf-marks. 5 1/4 x 3 inches (13.5 x 7.5 cm); 64, 317, [1], [24], 228 pp. ; [69], 483, [1] pp. Vellum rather soiled, generally a clean copy internally. Bookplates of William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland; OPPIAN. De Venatione Lib. IIII, De piscatu libri V. Leiden: Plantin, 1597. Early vellum, yapp edges, leather spine label. 6 1/8 x 4 inches (15.75 x 10 cm); 44 ff., 376 pp.., 15 ff.; 4 ff., 344, 164 S., 2 ff (inc. errata]. Covers soiled, some toning, and approximately eleven works, mostly classical, printed by Elsevier, Blaeu, Dyckhuysen, and others, all but one in vellum.

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Group of notable early printed books bound in vellum

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