I qvattro libri della caccia
By: di Tito Giovanni Scandianese, con la dimostratione de lvochi de greci et latini scrittori, & con la tradottione della Sfera di Proclo greco in lingua italiana tradotta dall'autore, cosa à tal soggetto necessaria; con la tavola copiosissima in fine
Contributors: Proclus, approximately 410-485
Publisher: Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari et fratelli
Published: 1556
Place of publication: In Vinegia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Hunting; Poetry
Other titles: Quattro libri della caccia; Della caccia
Notes: La sfera di Proclo has added t.p.

The 15 woodcut ill. were first used for Lodovico Dolce's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, published by Giolito in 1553; see Mortimer. Each of the 4 books is preceded by an Argomento within an ornamental border. Giolito's device with phoenix appears on the main and added t.p.'s with a 2nd, smaller, device on last p. A 3rd variant of the device is used on R4r to illustrate verses on the phoenix. Initials, head- and tailpieces. Hemispheric map (C4r), centered on Atlantic Ocean, with the uninhabitable torrid zone left blank.

Signatures: A-2C⁴.

Includes index.

Mortimer, R.  Italian 16th cent., 211