Lot 200
Maritime.- Bottazzo (Giovanni Iacopo) Dialogi Maritimi, Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinelli, 1547.
Estimate: £400 - 600
Description
Maritime.- Bottazzo (Giovanni Jacopo) Dialogi Maritimi, collation: A-Z AA-TT4, italic type, title with woodcut Fortuna printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, worm trace at start (continuing as a hole), affecting a few letters of text, lightly water-stained at foot, a few ff. foxed, occasional spotting, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, a couple of splits to spine, stained, 8vo (154 x 99mm.), Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinelli, 1547.
⁂ Only edition of this collection of discourses on Geography, Winds, and the Celestial Sphere. The author was a member of the Accademia degli Argonauti, founded in 1540, which met in Casale di Monferrato to discuss matters relating to the sea and navigation.
Literature: Not in Adams; EDIT 16 CNCE 7315.
Description
Maritime.- Bottazzo (Giovanni Jacopo) Dialogi Maritimi, collation: A-Z AA-TT4, italic type, title with woodcut Fortuna printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, worm trace at start (continuing as a hole), affecting a few letters of text, lightly water-stained at foot, a few ff. foxed, occasional spotting, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, a couple of splits to spine, stained, 8vo (154 x 99mm.), Mantua, Giacomo Ruffinelli, 1547.
⁂ Only edition of this collection of discourses on Geography, Winds, and the Celestial Sphere. The author was a member of the Accademia degli Argonauti, founded in 1540, which met in Casale di Monferrato to discuss matters relating to the sea and navigation.
Literature: Not in Adams; EDIT 16 CNCE 7315.
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