[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce ed. of Vida with his poem on chess. Venice: 1538

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Vida, Marcus Hieronymus. OPERA, Quae Quidem Extant... Christiados... De Poetica... De Bombycum... De Sacchorum Ludo... (Venice: Melchiorum Sessam. Nov. 1538). 8vo. 335,(57)pp. Index. Sessa's famous woodcut cat & mouse device on title and colophon (bottom of p. 335). Old vellum, morocco spine label (chipped). Vellum somewhat soiled. From the "Bibliotheca Heberiana" collection.	$1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The scarce second edition of Vida's (1470-1566) collected works, which include his most famous works, the "Art of Poetry," his poems "on the silkworm," and "on chess", etc. This edition not in Adams and not in BL Ital. STC.


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