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PITTONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Imprese Nobili, et Ingeniose di Diversi Prencipi, et d'Altri Personaggi. Engraved title and 105 (instead of 71?) plates of emblems with verse by Lodovico Dolce; lacks the 2-leaf letterpress preface and engraved plate with arms of Giacomo Soranzo. 4to, 272x204 mm, remboîtage of 17th-century gilt-stamped vellum boards, covers slightly warped; marginal dampstaining through much of volume, occasional marginal soiling; title in ink on fore and bottom edges. Praz, page 458 note. Venice: Girolamo Porro, 1578
bound with: Vredeman de Vries, Jan. Pictores, statuarii, architecti, latomi [et al.] . . . adeste: et hunc libellum varias coenotaphiorum, tumulorum, et mortuorum monumentorum formas . . . comprehendentum inspicite, emite, utimini. Engraved title and 26 plates of tombs and cenotaphs. Oblong 4to, contents bound along top edge; marginal soiling, conspicuous stains on title. [Antwerp]: Hieronymus Cock, 1563.
