Scelta curiosa et ricca officina di varie antiche & moderne istorie
Subtitle: diuisa in tre libri
By: composta da Gio. Felice Astolfi et adornata di belle & vaghe figure ; nella quale si spiegano essempi notabilissimi, à virtù & à difetto pertinenti ...
Publisher: Appresso gli heredi di Marchiò Sessa
Published: 1602
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 518
Subjects: Miscellanea; Early works to 1800; Conduct of life; History
Other titles: Scelta cvriosa et ricca officina di varie antiche & moderne istorie; Della officina istorica; Officina istorica
Notes: Sessa device on t.p. (cat & mouse). The ill. have been selected from those originally appearing in Francesco Marcolini's Le sorti, intitolate Giardino di pensieri (Venice, 1540; 2nd ed. 1550); cf. R. Mortimer, Italian 16th cent., 279-280. Here the captions have been dropped and the significance reinterpreted. Head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Signatures: a-c⁴ A-2I⁸ 2K⁴ (K2 signed X2; T3 signed S3).

Errata: p. [24].

Includes index.

Binding: modern brown goatskin, tooled in gilt and blind.

Signature on t.p. (Octauiani ?Prenci ?Cip.). Drawings on verso of final leaf.