Lettera dell'illvstre s. Costanzo Landi, conte di Compiano, sopra vna impresa d'vn pino : con i motti postovi, & con la dechiaratione di tutta la natura del pino
In the form of a letter to conte Prospero Tedesco. The closing appears on C5r: In Piacenza alli due di Nouembre à hore tre di notte, del M D LVII. It is followed by an addendum (C5v-C8r) Allegorical woodcut depicting pine-tree(?) on t.p. It is illustrated in Zappella (Marche dei tipografi, V d) as the device of Girolamo and Valerio Meda (Milan 1540-1581), rather than of Giovanni Antonio degli Antoni. Zappella suggests that it may be used here as illustration of the work's subject, rather than as printer's device Signatures: A-C Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems Binding: modern vellum
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