Engraved t.p. vignette of Medici arms. On recto of 2nd leaf is Callot's full-page engraved port. of Francesco de' Medici, son of Grand Duke Ferdinand I. It is in Lieure's 1st state. The port. also appeared the same year in Alessandro Adimari's Esequie dell' ill.mo & ecc.mo principe don Francesco Medici (Florence : Gio. Donato & Bernardino Giunti); see Lieure. Large woodcut Giunti device on p. [31]

Lieure, J. Jacques Callot

Port. trimmed into the image at right margin and foot

Binding: modern marbled paper, backed in green vellum. Date, author & title writte on spine

At head of front pastedown is bookplate of Francesco Riccardi de Vernaccia (Florence, ca. 1780; see Gelli, p. 387). Below it is the label of Horatius (Orazio) Landau, with stamped shelfmark 53021. At foot is the bookplate of U. Manganelli, signed with the initials SER. A dedicatory inscription at foot of t.p. has been scratched out

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