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Auction Closed
July 11, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
CORONELLI, VINCENZO MARIA. Arme, Blasoni o Insegne Gentilitie delle Famiglie Patritie esistenti nella serenissima Republica di Venetia. [Venice, c. 1700]
RARE OCTAVO PRINTING OF THIS HERALDIC CENSUS OF VENETIAN FAMILIES, featuring 63 engravings.
The bookplate suggests that the volume once belonged to the Miani family; it appears identical to their family arms as illustrated on p. 68 of this volume.
Oblong 8vo, 100 x 140 mm. 60 leaves. Engraved title, 3 folding, 58 full-page and 2 half-page engravings. (Worming to first four leaves, 3cm tear without loss to first folding illustration.)
binding: Contemporary vellum over thin boards (105 x 145 mm), spine with 2 half bands. (Binding slightly soiled, upper endpaper wormed and becoming detached.)
provenance: Miani family of Venice, remains of eighteenth-century bookplate (arms illustrated on p. 68 of this volume). acquisition: Purchased in 1986 from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. references: cf. OPAC SBN 021170 (16mo edition)
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