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Castiglione (Baldassare) Il libro del cortegiano del conte Baldesar Gastiglione, collation: A-Z8 AA-BB8, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of otherwise blank final f., some staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, ring mark to covers, soiled, 8vo (155 x 100mm.), [Florence], [Benedetto Giunta], 1531.*** A scarce early edition of this guide to courtly manners, first published by Aldus Manutius in 1528.Provenance: 'Joanne Caligario' (early ink inscription to head of A2).Literature: EDIT 16 CNCE 10060.
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Castiglione (Baldassare) Il libro del cortegiano, Florence, Benedetto Giunta, 1531.
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