Accession number
PML 57631
Creator
Cassius Dio Cocceianus.
Published
Venice : Giovanni de Farri & fratelli, 1542
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman,
Description
[4], 491, [1] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Notes
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Binding
16th-century Italian (Rome) red morocco, gold tooled with foliate ornaments and central medallion of eagle flying over a rocky shore and motto, "Este procul," by Niccolò Franzese for Apollonio Filareto. The rear board includes his name, Apollonii Philare
Provenance
Apollonio Filareto (active about 1530-47), binding; perhaps Piacenza, Convent of San Giovanni in Canali, where part of Filareto's library ended up; Sotheby's London, 21 July 1921, lot 663; W.E. Moss, his sale, Sotheby's London, 4 March 1937, lot 619; J.R.
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