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SEGNI, Bernardo. Storie Fiorentine Di Messer... Dall' Anno MDXXVII. al MDLV. Colla Vita di Niccolo Capponi Gonfaloniere della Repubblica di Firenze, descritta dal medesimo Segni suo Nipote.
Augusta: David Raimondo Mertz, e Gio. Jacopo Majer, 1723. Folio, full contemporary calf, raised bands, elaborate gilt compartments, leather spine label, (12), 384, (48), 42, (4)pp. [a4, b-Ppppp2, Qqqqq1, )(1, a-l2, m2 (with m2 a blank). With two folding portraits of Segni and Capponi, engraved by Johann Heinrich Storcklein, head and tail pieces. The "Vita di Niccolo Capponi" has a special halftitle. Small tear in the engraving of Segni, some light wear to the head of the spine but o/w a near fine, clean copy of this history of Florence. Brunet V p.260, Platneriana (139), Graesse IV p.341.
There are two censored passages omitted on p.304 as issued, which have been supplied in xerox. The first relates to Pier Luigi Farnese and the Bishop of Fano; the second is a brief portion of a paragraph relating to Pope Paul III.
$2,000
SEGNI, Bernardo. Storie Fiorentine Di Messer... Dall' Anno MDXXVII. al MDLV. Colla Vita di Niccolo Capponi Gonfaloniere della Repubblica di Firenze, descritta dal medesimo Segni suo Nipote. Augusta: David Raimondo Mertz, e Gio. Jacopo Majer, 1723. Folio, full contemporary calf, raised bands, elaborate gilt compartments, leather spine label, (12), 384, (48), 42, (4)pp. [a4, b-Ppppp2, Qqqqq1, )(1, a-l2, m2 (with m2 a blank). With two folding portraits of Segni and Capponi, engraved by Johann Heinrich Storcklein, head and tail pieces. The "Vita di Niccolo Capponi" has a special halftitle. Small tear in the engraving of Segni, some light wear to the head of the spine but o/w a near fine, clean copy of this history of Florence. Brunet V p.260, Platneriana (139), Graesse IV p.341.
There are two censored passages omitted on p.304 as issued, which have been supplied in xerox. The first relates to Pier Luigi Farnese and the Bishop of Fano; the second is a brief portion of a paragraph relating to Pope Paul III.
$2,000
