[Rarebooks] FS: Dolce's Italian trans. of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" w/fine woodcuts. Venice: 1561

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Ovid. LE TRASFORMATIONI. In Questa Sesta Impressione da lui in Molti Luoghi 
Ampliate... Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari. 1561. 4to. (12),320pp. 
Double column text. Title within an elaborate woodcut border. Illustrated with a 
half-page woodcut world map (which includes "Nueva Hispania") on p. 3, and 
84 large text woodcuts, each with side borders. Bound in 19th century full 
brown morocco, gilt spine, a bit rubbed. With the woodcut bookplate of the 
British publisher R. Spence, ca. 1780-1820. Some light text soiling, a number 
of leaves in the middle portion of the text have a small worm hole at the 
lower blank margin repaired (filled-in). On a few leaves this repair touches 
one or two words of the text.     $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Dolce's popular Italian translation of Ovid's METAMORPHOSES, here in the 
edition which contains the final revisions and corrections by Dolce. See 
Bongi, GIOLITO II, p. 123. Mortimer. Italian #342 (the 1553 Giolito edition).

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