Manuzio, Le attioni di Castruccio, Rome, Gigliotti, 1590, seventeenth-century calf, Mostyn family library

Manuzio, Aldo II. Le attioni di Castruccio Castracane de gli Antelminelli, signore di Lucca. Con la genealogia della famiglia: estratte dalla nuoua descrittione d'Italia. Rome: Heirs of Giovanni Gigliotti, 1590

First edition.

4to (200 x 142 mm). Italic and roman type, 38 lines plus headline. collation: *⁴ A-Y⁴: 92 leaves. Woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut headpieces and initials, woodcut diagram at end, errata leaf. (Some scattered and faint foxing.)

binding: Seventeenth-century calf (208 x 155 mm), spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt-lettered morocco label to second, others with repeat gilt floral and filigree pattern, edges speckled. (Extremities rubbed, chipping to foot of spine and label.)

provenance: Mostyn, family library (Flintshire, Wales) — Roger Edward Lloyd Lloyd-Mostyn, 5th Baron Mostyn (1920-2000), his sale, Christie's London, 9-10 October 1974, lot 58. acquisition: Purchased at Christie's via Quaritch. references: Renouard 246/10; Edit16 25966; USTC 840429