Seldom print of Jean-Baptist Verus's work in Latin, Rerum venetarum. ..., Amsterdam, Louis Elsevier, 1644 A.D.
Title:
Ioan. Baptistae Veri Rerum Venetarum Libri Quatuor ad Illustrissimum Virum Petrum Contarenum, Francisci F. Amsterodami, Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium. M. D. CXLIV."
Print:
Amsterdam, Louis Elsevier, 1644 A.D.
Description:
The work deals with the history of Venice. This seldom work, Rerum Venetarum, was published by Louis Elsevier in Amsterdam, 1644. The work is decorated with a frontispiece and a print mark of Elsevier at the title.
Binding:
binding in cardboard of the 18th century
spine with title lable
inner book in red
Size:
ca. 12.2 x 7.8 x 2.8 cm
Illustration:
- 1 full-paged copper engraving frontispiece
- 1 woodcut print mark
- exlibris
Collation:
- 1 blank leaf
- 1 frontispiece
- 1 title leaf + print mark
- 2 leaves foreword
- 4 leaves index
- 229 leaves text (numbered pages 1-458)
- 2 blank leaves
Complete!
Condition:
- good condition
Binding
- rubbed and hit
Paper
- good paper quality
- frontispiece with torn off piece at the margin, laid down
- hardly stains or browning
- Please look at the pictures!