Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256
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Sale 2256 - Lot 130

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[MAFFEI, RAFFAELE.] Commentariorum urbanorum Raphaelis Volaterrani [pseud.] . . . Item Oeconomicus Xenophontis. [20], 468 leaves. Folio, 328x220 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with brass catches, lacks clasps, leather brittle and flaked, conspicuously rebacked, endpapers renewed; marginal dampstaining, soiling, and worming in blank gutters at beginning and end. wide-margined copy. Basel: Officina Frobeniana, 1530
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Collection of miscellaneous writings originally published in 1506 dealing with geography, the lives of ancient and modern notables, and assorted topics in natural history. This edition concludes with author's Latin translation of the treatise by Xenophon on household management. Alden 530/27 (for references to Columbus and to the discovery of Brazil); Thorndike V, 141.