Libri tre di M. Lodouico Dolce : ne i quali si tratta delle diuerse sorti delle gemme, che produce la natura, della qualità, grandezza, bellezza, et virtù loro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leonardi, Camillo, active 1502.

Contributor:

Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568.

Sessa, Giovanni Battista, active 1546-1602, publisher.

Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1546-1600, publisher.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Speculum lapidum. Italian

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Precious stones--Early works to 1800.

Precious stones.

Gems--Religious aspects--Early works to 1800.

Gems.

Lapidaries (Medieval literature)--Early works to 1800.

Lapidaries (Medieval literature).

Gems--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

99 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 15 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Libri tre di M. Lodovico Dolce

Libri tre ne i quali si tratta delle diuerse sorti delle gemme, che produce la natura, della qualità, grandezza, bellezza, et virtù loro

Fingerprint:

n-IO e&e, hed- cosa (3) 1565 (A)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Gio Battista, Marchio Sessa, et fratelli, [1565]

Notes:

Translation of Camillo Leonardi's "Speculum lapidum."

Caption title: Delle gemme che produce la natura, della qualità, grandezza, bellezza, & virtù loro.

Publication date from colophon on last page.

Printer's device (Zappella 940) on title page.

Woodcut initials; head-pieces.

Signatures: A-M⁸ N⁴ (N4 blank).

Register at end.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; author and title stamped in gold on spine; severn gold-tooled bands on spine.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Dolce, Lodovico. Dialogo di M. Lodouico Dolce. In Venetia : Appresso Gio. Battista, Marchio Sessa, et fratelli, [1565]

Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's description affixed to front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Adams D738

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 220

EDIT 16 CNCE 17388

Index Aureliensis, 154675

Zappella, G. Marche dei tipografi del Cinquecento, 940

OCLC:

11830127