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1619 half-leather-on-board (rebound) book in Italian entitled Il vago, & diletteuole Giardino ove si

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1619 half-leather-on-board (rebound) book in Italian entitled Il vago, & diletteuole Giardino ove si
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1619 half-leather-on-board (rebound) book in Italian entitled Il vago, & diletteuole Giardino ove si Leggono..., by R. P. Luigi Contarino Crocifero. 6-1/2" x 8-3/4"; 467 pages. Printed in Venice by Alessandro de Vecchi in elegant italic type with small engravings of the profiles of important men, 2 volumes bound in one, excellent condition except a few quires lightly browned and the title page ink-stamped and with old signatures crossed out. This work, first published in 1586, contains biographies of famous men and women with discussions of science, art, religion, nature, etc., its wood-cut illustrations borrowed from a number of sixteenth-century works.