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Dell'imprese scelte : doue trovansi tvtte qvelle, che da diverse avtore stampate, si rendon conformi alle regole & alle principali qualità, stimae da' buon giudizi, le migliori infin qvi d'intorno à questo nobilissimo soggestto

by: Biralli, Simon, active 1600-1610

Publication date: 1600

Topics: Devices (Heraldry), Emblems, Devices (Heraldry) -- Early works to 1800, Emblems -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista Ciotti senese

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Italian

Item Size: 285.9M

2nd vol. published Venice : G.B. Ciotti, 1610. See Praz

Ciotti's device on t.p. (Aurora), and a larger one at the colophon (Minerva). Head- and tail-pieces. Foliated initials

Signatures: a b¹²(-b11,12) A-K L¹²

Includes index

Praz, M. 17th-century imagery (2nd ed.)

Bound with: Il rota, over, Della imprese / Scipione Ammirato (Fiorenza : Filippo Giunti, 1598) -- Dialogo dell'imprese / Torqvato Tasso (Napoli : Nella stamparia dello Stigliola, 1594)

Binding: old vellum. Title written at head of spine, a faint earlier version of the title written upwards. Remains of 2 pairs of ties at foredge

Owner's inscription on front free endpaper recto: In Roma 1609 / Di Annibale di Montevecchio

Signatures: a⁴, b¹²( -b11,12), A-K⁸, L¹²

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1848

[14], 90, [2] leaves (the last blank) ; 22 cm. (4to)