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Wednesday 15 June 2022 e Thursday 16 June 2022, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Baif, Lazare de

De re navali libellus, 1543

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€ 200 - 300

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€ 384

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Information

Lyons, Thibaud Payen, 1543. In 8th. Woodblock mark on the title page and at the end, coeval parchment binding, smooth spine manuscript. Paper ex libris on the counterplate: Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli.

Specialist Notes

Edition edited by Charles Estienne, whose name appears in the preface, of this work on the war boats of antiquity (first edition, Paris 1537). Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli (1729-1808) Florentine patrician owner of the book, he was the last exponent of the Pelli family, historian, essayist and director of the Uffizi Gallery from 1775 to 1793.