Nicolini da Sabbio, Introduttorio nuovo intitolato corona preciosa, Venice, 1527, later calf gilt with Aldine device

Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio

Introduttorio nuovo intitolato corona preciosa, per imparare, legere, scrivere, parlare, & intendere la lingua greca volgare & literale, et la lingua latina, & il volgare italico con molta facilita e prestezza sanza precettore. (Venice: Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio and brothers, for Andrea Torresano, August 1527)

8vo (151 x 100mm.), title printed in red and black, parallel titles in Italian, Greek and Latin, some headings printed in red, without final blank, nineteenth-century English calf gilt with Aldine device stamped in gilt on covers, flat spine gilt, gilt edges, rebacked retaining most of original spine

An uncommon grammatical work, printed for Andrea Torresano.

LITERATURE:

Cataldi Palau 110; Edit16 32267

PROVENANCE:

Florence, library of the Piarists, inscription on title-page dated 1762; Earl of Powis, signature "Powis" on verso of flyleaf, sale, Sotheby's, 20 March 1923, lot 282