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BEMBO, PIETRO. Della Historia Vinitiana . . . libri XII. [14], 179, [1] leaves. 4to, 224x164 mm, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over pasteboard with silk ties, author and title written in humanist hand in ink on front cover, spine darkened; light marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, insignificant worming through first few leaves not affecting text. Venice: (Gualtero Scotto), 1552
first edition in italian, translated by the author from his Latin original published the year before. Gamba 130. From the library of the Fugger banking family of Augsburg, in a binding characteristically used for Italian vernacular works in the collection, with their shelf mark on the front free endpaper. Cf. Lehmann, Eine Geschichte der alten Fuggerbibliotheken II, 202 (in binding described as vellum).
