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PIUS II, Pope (formerly AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI).
Opera quae
extant omnia.
19 woodcut maps in text. [112], 1034, [34] pages, including final blank.
Folio, 311x201 mm, modern
1
/
4
calf; intermittent heavy browning, dampstaining in upper
outer corners, scattered small ink blots, title lightly soiled with vertical crease and washed
and abraded inscriptions, fore edge shaved.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION
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Basel: Henricus Petri, 1551
[2,500/3,500]
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(POETICAL MISCELLANY.)
Bacchus and Venus: or, A Select Collection
of near 200 of the most Witty and Diverting Songs and Catches in Love and
Gallantry . . . To which is added, A Collection of Songs in the Canting
Dialect, with a Dictionary explaining all the Burlesque and Canting Terms
used by the several Tribes of Gipsies, Beggars, and other Clans of Cheats and
Villains.
Woodcut frontispiece. [12], 118; [26]; [118] (of [120]) pages; lacks last leaf,
presumably blank. 3 parts in one volume. 12mo, 161x99 mm, modern calf gilt with
morocco lettering piece; contents toned with occasional heavy foxing, most noticeable on
opening leaves and at beginning of second part, small piece missing from blank outer mar-
gin of frontispiece.
London: R. Montague, 1737
[6,000/9,000]
SCARCE FIRST EDITION
of a collection of love and drinking songs including an early dictionary
of itinerant and underworld vernacular. Case 409; ESTC N31988 (giving incorrect pagination).
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