CONTILE, LUCA. Ragionamento di Luca Contile sopra la proprietà delle imprese con le particolari de gli Academici affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche. Pavia, Girolamo Bartoli, 1574.
Folio (340 x 225 mm.). Roman type, 54 lines plus headline. collation: *6 A-Z4 Aa-Pp4 Qq4(-Qq4) Rr8: 167 leaves. Engraved title within an architectural border, full-page engraved device on L4 recto (including map depicting South America), engraved device of the Accademia degli Affidati on M2 verso, and 114 engraved devices of the members of the Accademia. Also with woodcut initials. (Title-page somewhat soiled, occasional foxing, dampstaining frpm leaf 100 to the end, more from 140.
Restored contemporary gilt brown calf binding, new spine in compartments, new endpapers, gilt edges, boards slightly warped. Old owner's annotation to title: Ex catalogo fratrum Discalceatorum Sti Augustini Conventurs Pariseinsis (Order of Discalced Augustinians).

First edition of this important renaissance emblem book, includes the often lacking final gathering and with the cancelled leafQq4. The engraved device on leaf L4 includes a map of the world, with South America shown and labeled as "America."
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