Anania, De natura daemonum, Venice, Aldus, 1589, mottled calf

Anania, Giovanni Lorenzo d'. De natura daemonum libri quatuor ... cum indice rerum memorabilium. Venice: Aldo II Manuzio, 1589

Second Aldine edition.

8vo (148 x 100 mm). Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: †6 A-M⁸ N¹⁰: 112 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page, first two words of title in woodcut cartouche, woodcut initials, extensive annotations in a neat contemporary hand. (Light stains, trimmed a little close at top)

binding: Early eighteenth-century mottled calf (151 x 106 mm), spine gilt in six compartments, red morocco lettering-piece, red stained edges, marbled endpapers. (Extremities lightly rubbed.)

acquisition: Purchased from Alan G. Thomas, London, 1976. references: UCLA 988; Edit16 15957; Renouard 242/6