Opera quotquot extant omnia. A mendis accurate repurgata. 2 parts + Regionum et insularum atque locorum descriptiones videlicet Britanniae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, Orchadum, item Moscoviae et Larii lacus. de Piscibus Romanis libellum vere aureum adiunximus. 3 parts in 1 volume.

England, Scotland, Ireland, Fish, Lago di Como etc. - Giovio, Paolo (Paulus Jovius) and George Lily:

Published by Basel, Petrus Perna, 1578.

About this Item

Folio, circa 35 x 23 cm. 6 ff., 408 pp., 12 (1 blank) ff., 617 pp., 14 ff., 1 f., 156 pp., 4 ff., title with woodcut border, 1 large protrait of Giovio - added are 6 engravings Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards with metal clasps "VD16 ZV 6638; Adams G 632; Graesse III, 490. Large edition of the collected works of the Italian humanist and historian Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) from Como. To his extensive contemporary history (Historiarum sui temporis libri XLV) are added several shorter texts about England, Scotland, Ireland, Russia (Moscovia), his native Lake Como and the famous treatise on fish "De Romanis piscibus" (first published in 1524, cf. Wood 359: "a very early treatise on Roman ichthyology"). There are also texts added by the English cartographer and historian George Lily (Virorum aliquot in Britannia. Elogia etc.). - Altough the first title says that the works are "imaginibus illustrata" the edition has no illustrations in the text apart from the portait of Giovio - this copy though has several added engravings. It is also annotated in many parts and has two manuscript pages with further historical details bound in. The endpapers give indices and some notes. Title with a small old owner s inscription. Some browning, little foxing but mostly clean, binding rubbed, rear board with some loss to the covering pigskin. Still a nice and decorative blindstamped binding with a figurative stamp to the center (Christ rising from the dead). ".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Opera quotquot extant omnia. A mendis accurate repurgata. 2 parts + Regionum et insularum atque locorum descriptiones videlicet Britanniae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, Orchadum, item Moscoviae et Larii lacus. de Piscibus Romanis libellum vere aureum adiunximus. 3 parts in 1 volume.
• Publisher: Basel, Petrus Perna, 1578.
• Binding: Hardcover
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