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RAIMONDI (EUGENIO) Le caccie delle fiere armate e disarmate et de gl'animali quadrupedi, volatili et aquatici, FIRST EDITION, Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621; and another by Raimondi (2)
27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
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RAIMONDI (EUGENIO)
Le caccie delle fiere armate e disarmate et de gl'animali quadrupedi, volatili et aquatici, FIRST EDITION, woodcut device on title, 7 full-page woodcut illustrations, light spotting, eighteenth century calf, rebacked preserving most of original gilt-tooled spine, later arms blindstamped on covers [Ceresoli, p.441 ("edizione originale e molto rara"); Harting 277; Schwerdt II, p.122], Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621; Delle caccie libri quattro aggiuntovi in questa nuova impressione altre Caccie che sperse in altri libri andavano, third edition, engraved pictorial title, 19 full-page engraved illustrations, small hole (with loss of a few letters) to final leaf of index, a few headlines shaved pp.231/2 with short tear in blank margin, green nineteenth century morocco gilt, sides with elaborate roll-tool border enclosing central ornament enclosing wording "Italiano sono contro venti e mare", spine tooled in compartments within raised bands, one later gilt lettering label, spine dulled [Ceresoli, p.442; Harting 277; Schwerdt II, p.123], [Venice, 1630], 8vo (2)
Footnotes
"The first edition of one of the most noted Italian books on hunting... the seven curious full-page woodcuts are a pleasing feature of this treatise" (Schwerdt, referring to the first work).
Provenance: First work, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, of Pollok (1818-1878), blindstamped arms on covers and bookplate. Both works, Count Umberto Caproni di Taliedo, bookplates.





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