Bacci, De thermis, Venice, 1571, eighteenth-century vellum

Andrea Bacci

De thermis... libri septem... in quo agitur de universa aquarum natura... de balneis totius orbis, & de methodo medendi per balneas... Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1571

folio (290 x 195mm.), title-page with woodcut vignette, woodcut initials, double-page woodcut plan of the Baths of Diocletian, eighteenth-century vellum, flat spine gilt, mottled red edges, title-page lacking and supplied in a later letterpress version

FIRST EDITION. For a copy with the original title-page, see lot 28. We have not been able to trace another copy of the reprinted title-page, which is identifiable because it does not contain the Valgrisi printer's device and the paper stock is different from the rest of the book.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 3825

PROVENANCE:

Dr Dante Lucchesi of Florence, purchased from Libreria Aldo Manuzio of Milan, postcard loosely inserted