[Rarebooks] FS: Sardi's important study of the mores of the ancients. Venice: 1557.

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Sardi, Alessandro. DE MORIBUS AC RITIBUS GENTIUM, Libri III. Nunc
Primum in Lucem Editi... Venice: Stellae Jordani Zilleti. 1557. 8vo.
(16),265,(3)pp. Printer's device on title page and verso of final leaf.
Cont. limp vellum. Spine with a 1" chipped section, and another crack
in the vellum at lower spine. Some old marginal soiling.    $1,250.00
(trade discount allowed)
First edition of this important study by Sardi (1520-1588) on the
manners & customs of the ancients. It is a successor to the popular
OMNIUM GENTIUM MORES of Joannes Boemus. Adams S422.

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