[Rarebooks] FS: Giovio's Emblem Book w/138 oval woodcuts. Lyon: 1574

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(EMBLEM BOOKS) Giovio, Paolo. DIALOGO DELL'IMPRESE MILITARI ET AMOROSE... et del S. Gabriel Symeoni... Con un Ragionamento di M. Lodovico Domenici... Lyon: Guglielmo Rouillio. 1574. 8vo. 280,(16)pp. With the final blank. Index. Verso of title with a full page woodcut of Giovio. Text with 138 woodcut oval emblems. Early vellum, somewhat soiled. Spine with one horizontal crack. Two bookplates.    $1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
This edition with the additional emblems of G. Simeoni and the commentary of Domenichi. See Praz p. 353. Landwehr ROMANTIC EMBLEM BOOKS #345.

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