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Il Decameron di messer Giovanni Boccacci cittadin fiorentino. Di nuovo ristampato, e riscontrato in Firenze con testi antichi, & alla sua vera lezione ridotto dal cavalier Lionardo Salviati, Deputato dal Serenissimo Gran Duca di Toscana
by Boccaccio, Giovanni
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About This Item
Venezia: Pietro Maria Bertano, 1638. Hardcover. xiv, 472pp. Bound in full vellum with gilt titles and decorations on the spine panel, sprinkled edges. A revised and somewhat censored edition of the Decameron by the Florentine nobleman Leonardo Salviati, who was among the founders of the Accademia della Crusca, originally published in Firenze in 1582. With the bookplate of binders Fletcher and Maude Battershall on the front pastedown endpaper and Fletcher Battershall's signature on front free endpaper. Wear to corner tips, front joint partially split at spine. A very good copy. ; Quarto.
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- Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16954
- Title
- Il Decameron di messer Giovanni Boccacci cittadin fiorentino. Di nuovo ristampato, e riscontrato in Firenze con testi antichi, & alla sua vera lezione ridotto dal cavalier Lionardo Salviati, Deputato dal Serenissimo Gran Duca di Toscana
- Author
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Pietro Maria Bertano
- Place of Publication
- Venezia
- Date Published
- 1638
- Keywords
- ANTIQUARIAN, LITERATURE, ITALY, ITALIAN BOOK, ITALIAN LANGUAGE
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- Antiquarian;
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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