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PARADIN, GUILLAUME.
Cronique de Savoye.
[36], 394, [2]
pages, including
blank D6 and final leaf with printer’s device on verso; lacks the genealogical table. 4to,
231
x154 mm, mid-17th-century red morocco gilt with the arms of Don Ramiro Núñez
de Guzmán, Duke of Medina de las Torres, and his second wife, Anna Carafa Aldobrandini
(
front cover) and his emblematic supra-libros (rear cover); occasional light marginal damp-
staining, scattered early underscoring and marginalia, hole in gutter of last few leaves
affecting a few words.
Lyon: Jean de Tournes & Guillaume Gazeau, (16 July) 1552
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
of a history of the House of Savoy from its founding in the 11th century
through the mid-15th century. Adams P300; Oldham, Shrewsbury School Library Bindings,
pages 120-21. From the libraries of Paolo Ramusio, with his contemporary inscription (“Pauli
Rhamnusii et amicorum”) on title and at end; the Spanish statesman Don Ramiro Núñez de
Guzmán (circa 1600-68), Duke of Medina de las Torres and Viceroy of Naples from 1636
to 1644, bound for him; and the politician and philosopher Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt. (1800-
79),
with his armorial bookplate.
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PEROTTUS, NICOLAUS [i. e., PEROTTI, NICCOLÒ]; et al.
In hoc volumine
habentur haec: Cornucopiae, sive linguae Latinae com[m]entarii
[
and other texts].
[80]
leaves, 1436 columns, [1] leaf with Aldine device on verso. Folio, 309x217 mm, 18th-
century
1
/
4
calf, spine scuffed, moderate wear to cover edges; title and last page soiled,
contents otherwise clean, repaired clean tear in X1. 18th-century bookplate of Wakefield
School, their ownership inscription (gift of Edmund Rolfe) dated 1755 on title; modern
bookplates of Brian Douglas Stilwell and Robert Wayne Stilwell.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, November 1513)
[1,500/2,500]
Second Aldine edition of an exhaustive lexicographical commentary on the first book of
Martial’s epigrams, consulted long after as a Latin dictionary. The original edition was printed
in 1489, the first Aldine in 1499. Renouard, page 28(5); New UCLA 43.
