1551 LA ZUCCA by Anton Francesco Doni antique ILLUSTRATED
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1551 LA ZUCCA by Anton Francesco Doni antique ILLUSTRATED

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img{max-width:100%} Doni, (Anton Francesco) La Zucca3 parts in 1 volumeVenice, Francesco Marcolini, 1551First Edition16 pages, 63 pages; 4 sheets, 64 pages; 4 sheets, 61 pages, 1 sheet. With woodcut title border, 3 repeated woodcut printer's marks, 3 large emblematic medallions, full-page and two-thirds-page portrait woodcut, 3 full-page repeated and 18 half-page text woodcuts.Size 4 1/4 by 6 1/3" ( 16x11cm. )Original limp vellum binding, worn. Lacks front endpaper.Otherwise good conditionFirst edition of the curious collection La Zucca (The Pumpkin), which Doni says he was inspired by Domenichi's Facetie: "A mishmash of all sorts of things, sentences, Proverbs, bon mots, histories, fables, moral portrayals, jokes, allegories and satires, which are strangely mixed together" ContainsI cicalamenti, Le baie and Le chiachiere della Zucca each with its own subtitleTitle with a small tear in the edge, sometimes more, sometimes less finger-stained, the end page is wide in the lower margin,

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