La historia di Italia
By: di M. Francesco Guicciardini, gentilʹ huomo fiorentino ...
Contributors: Guicciardini, Agnolo, 1525-1581.
Publisher: Appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, impressor ducale
Published: 1561
Place of publication: In Fiorenza
Language: ita
Number of pages: 665
Subjects: Italy -- History -- 1492-1559.
Other titles: Historia di Italia di M. Francesco Gvicciardini, gentilʹ hvomo fiorentino ...
Notes: Adams 1508
Brunet v. 2, col. 1803
Preface, preliminary p. [3]-[5], signed: Agnolo Guicciardini.
The first edition, published by Agnolo Guicciardini, containing sixteen books only. The last four were published by the same editor in 1564.
Signatures: A⁴, A-2L⁶ 2M² 2N-3H⁶ 3I⁴ 3K⁶.
Portrait of the author in a circular double-ruled frame on preliminary p. [8].
Torrentino's armorial device on t.p. and last leaf; historiated initials.
"Frammento dell' Istorie di Francesco Guicciardini, che manca in tutti li esemplari stampati tanto in Firenze, quanto in Venetia, ò altrouë"--4 pages in ms. tipped in between p. 164 and 165.
LC copy in contemporary parchment binding. Has two small rectangular paper cutouts of printer's ornaments mounted on t.p. on either side of printer's arms. Acquired by the Library of Congress in 1914. "Della Cruscan Collection."