"ROSSI, OTTAVIO.Livre Rare Book
1620rif. 61190Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1620. 4to (225 x 170 mm). In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Extremities with light soiling and a few dots and marks. Ex-libris (Richard Luckett) pasted on to pasted-down front end-paper. Small stamp to lower margin of front free end-paper. With light occassional brownspotting throughout. With numerous marginal annotations throughout by Bernardino Faini (or Faino - see below). Leaf inserted between p. 298 and p. 299, next to the entry of Cardinal Duranti, Bishop of Brescia, with a 12-line note (signed ""Bernadinus Fainus""), in which he descibes the Duranda-family from Pare in the commune of Bergamo. Engraved title-page and two blanks. (28), 519 pp. Provenance: Dr Richard Luckett (1945-2020), Research Fellow of St Catharine's, Cambridge.Constance Jocelyn Ffoulkes (1858–1950) or Monsignor Rodolfo Maiocchi (1862-1924). (see ""Vincenzo Foppa of Brescia: Founder of the Lombard School, His Life and Work"", p. 79).Bernardino Faino (1600-1673).
1834rif. 62665Kjöbenhavn (Copenhagen), Steens Forlag, 1834. 12mo (15 x 9,5 cm). Lovely contemporary brown half calf with gilt ornamentation to spine. General wear along hinges and edges of boards. But overall a very nice copy. Tight and fine. Book-plate of Kaj Christensen (1960'ies) to inside of front board and and ownership signatures to front free end-paper (""W. Unsgaard"" and ""N. Neiidendam / 1900"") along with blindstamped ovnership stanp of Johan G. Melbye. Later pencil-annotation to inside of front board (stating that only tow copies are said to be preserved on private hands). VI, (2) pp. + 48 engraved and finely handcoloured plates. All the blank leaves inbetween the plates preserved as well.