Giovanni Battista CINI
Descritione della pompa funerale fatta nelle essequie del Ser. Sig. Cosimo de Medici Gran Duca de Toscana
Giunta|In Fiorenza [Florence] • (Florence) 1574|15 x 22 cm|relié
The rare first edition. Printer's device on the verso of the final leaf. Renaissance frame engraved for the title page, with a title vignette representing the city of Florence. A medallion portrait of Cosimo de' Medici on the verso of the title page, and a historiated initial on the first page of text. Printed in italics. The work is neither paginated nor foliated.
19th-century rigid full vellum Bradel binding signed E. Jarrigean, with beveled edges. Smooth spine with title in pen and ink calligraphy in red and black. Title page 1 cm shorter in bottom margin. Yellow dampstain from gathering B to gathering e, from bottom to middle of leaves. Handsome copy.
Having died in 1574, Cosim
19th-century rigid full vellum Bradel binding signed E. Jarrigean, with beveled edges. Smooth spine with title in pen and ink calligraphy in red and black. Title page 1 cm shorter in bottom margin. Yellow dampstain from gathering B to gathering e, from bottom to middle of leaves. Handsome copy.
Having died in 1574, Cosim
€800