Isolario [Italian verse].

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Accession number: 
PML 338
Author: 
Bartolommeo da li Sonetti, active 1485.
Published: 
[Venice : Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis?, not after 1485]; [about 1486]
Description: 
(4to)
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Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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49 woodcut maps. For dating see note in BMC, which postulates a date of completion before the death of Doge Giovanni Mocenigo in 1485. CIBN dates about 1486. On the variants, see C.F. Bühler in Gb Jb 1957 pp.94-97.
Checklist: "JPM 338."

Binding: 
Contemporary Italian brown morocco, tooled in blind with strapwork designs in a central panel; two clasps, in slipcase.
Provenance: 
From the libraries of Baron Achille Seilliere, with the bookplate of the Bibliotheque de Mello (sale, Sotheby's, 28 Feb. 1887, lot 103, to James Toovey for £27); William Morris and Richard Bennett; Pierpont Morgan.
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