Hodoeporicon.
Florence and Lucca, the Marescandoli Brothers [1681].
4to (225 x 155 mm.). [xii], 72p. Issue without the engraved portrait.
19th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine title.
First Edition. In 1431 the humanist, theologian and friend of the “book hunters” Niccolò Niccoli and Poggio Bracciolini visited the Italian Camaldolese monasteries for Pope Eugene IV. In good condition, signature of philologist A. Wilmanns (1833-1917).
¶Brunet V: 931 (no portrait); see Bracciolini & Niccoli’s Two Renaissance Book Hunters ed. Gordan passim and Sabbadini’s Le Scoperte dei codici latini e greci passim.
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