Grapaldi, De partibus aedium, Parma, 1516, modern leather binding

Francesco Maria Grapaldi

De partibus aedium addita modo, verborum explicatione, quae in eodem libro, continentur. Parma: Ottaviano Saladi and Francesco Ugoleto for Antonio Quinziano, 1516

4to (210 x 150mm.), woodcut portrait of the author on title-page, woodcut initials, small woodcut device beneath colophon, with final blank, modern leather over wooden boards

This is the first edition to contain a portrait and a life of Grapaldi, presumably because he had died the previous year. The text describes the various rooms of a house, including the library.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 21596; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 220; Sander 3254

PROVENANCE:

"Sum Fr. Sirelli Turonii [of Tours] Re sana frui scio, foy sans c. varier", early inscription on title-page; Pietro Buoninsegna, Siena, printed booklabel at foot of title-page dated 1814