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PARADIN, GUILLAUME. Cronique de Savoye. [36], 394, [2] pages, including blank D6 and final leaf with printer's device on verso; lacks the genealogical table. 4to, 231x154 mm, mid-17th-century red morocco gilt with the arms of Don Ramiro Núñez de Guzmán, Duke of Medina de las Torres, and his second wife, Anna Carafa Aldobrandini (front cover) and his emblematic supra-libros (rear cover); occasional light marginal dampstaining, scattered early underscoring and marginalia, hole in gutter of last few leaves affecting a few words. Lyon: Jean de Tournes & Guillaume Gazeau, (16 July) 1552
first edition of a history of the House of Savoy from its founding in the 11th century through the mid-15th century. Adams P300; Oldham, Shrewsbury School Library Bindings, pages 120-21. From the libraries of Paolo Ramusio, with his contemporary inscription ('Pauli Rhamnusii et amicorum') on title and at end; the Spanish statesman Don Ramiro Núñez de Guzmán (circa 1600-68), Duke of Medina de las Torres and Viceroy of Naples from 1636 to 1644, bound for him; and the politician and philosopher Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bt. (1800-79), with his armorial bookplate.
