strozzi francesco fl 16th cent (1 risultati)

Condizione: Good. 8vo (150x97 mm). Collation: A-E8 (l. E8v is a blank). [40] ll. With the woodcut printer's device on title-page. Italic type. Colophon at the l. E8r: In Vinegia, per Giovanni Britto intagliatore, 1543 nel mese d'ottobre. Later cardboard (rebacked in vellum). Occasionally foxed, but a good copy.First italian edition, translated by Francesco Strozzi from the 1542 original Latin, of this text describing the attempt by the natives of Gelderland to defend their independence threatened by the House of Austria. The Duke was forced to yield to Charles V his duchy with the Treaty of Venloo, signed the September 7, 1543. Very rare text and the only published by the venetian engraver Giovanni Britto (but printed for him by Francesco Marcolini, with his classic italic type).Edit 16, CNCE 28612; Casali, Marcolini, no. 68 ("rare"); Johnson, Italian 16th Century (1926), p. 34; Short-title catalogue, p. 623. Book.