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Boccaccio (Giovanni) Genealogiae...cum demonstrationibus in formis arborum designatis. Eiusdem de montibus & sylvis, de fontibus: Iacubus: & fluminibus, Venice, Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1494.

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Boccaccio (Giovanni) Genealogiae...cum demonstrationibus in formis arborum designatis. Eiusdem de montibus & sylvis, de fontibus: Iacubus: & fluminibus, collation: a-t8 u10, 162ff., complete, 62/63 lines per page, Roman letter, 13 full-page woodcut genealogical trees, numerous woodcut initials, printer’s device on final leaf, lower margin of a6 cut away (no loss of text), slight worming to inner margin of first 10 leaves, just touching text block in places, title with ink inscription erased causing ink stain to verso, h1 with several words similarly inked out causing slight ink stain, some light marginal staining, occasional ink marginalia, later blind-stamped vellum, spine with raised bands and double morocco labels, yapp edges, in modern cloth drop-back box, folio (300 x 208mm.), Venice, Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1494.

*** Boccaccio's great work of mythography, including, in the last two books, his defence of poetry and much autobiographical matter. The genealogical trees of the pagan gods are found in the only surviving autograph manuscript and are regarded as the earliest secular ones.

Provenance: James Wyllie Guild and John Hadden Hindley (bookplates on rear pastedown).

Literature: HC *3321; GW 4478; BMC V, 444 (IB. 22904); BSB-Ink B-586; Klebs 190.3; Essling 799; Sander 1077; Goff B-753.

Description

Boccaccio (Giovanni) Genealogiae...cum demonstrationibus in formis arborum designatis. Eiusdem de montibus & sylvis, de fontibus: Iacubus: & fluminibus, collation: a-t8 u10, 162ff., complete, 62/63 lines per page, Roman letter, 13 full-page woodcut genealogical trees, numerous woodcut initials, printer’s device on final leaf, lower margin of a6 cut away (no loss of text), slight worming to inner margin of first 10 leaves, just touching text block in places, title with ink inscription erased causing ink stain to verso, h1 with several words similarly inked out causing slight ink stain, some light marginal staining, occasional ink marginalia, later blind-stamped vellum, spine with raised bands and double morocco labels, yapp edges, in modern cloth drop-back box, folio (300 x 208mm.), Venice, Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1494.

*** Boccaccio's great work of mythography, including, in the last two books, his defence of poetry and much autobiographical matter. The genealogical trees of the pagan gods are found in the only surviving autograph manuscript and are regarded as the earliest secular ones.

Provenance: James Wyllie Guild and John Hadden Hindley (bookplates on rear pastedown).

Literature: HC *3321; GW 4478; BMC V, 444 (IB. 22904); BSB-Ink B-586; Klebs 190.3; Essling 799; Sander 1077; Goff B-753.

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