Susanne Schulz-Falster - Schulz-Falster Rare Books

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[LAMBERTINI
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[BARBARO
4to (281 x 223mm), pp. 48 including engraved frontispiece;
title letterpress printed within engraved decorative border;
text printed within woodcut border, showing animals, putti,
etc.; woodcut border in seven different designs, repeated;
contemporary multi-coloured woodblock printed wrappers,
with floral illustrations; a fine copy.
A sumptuous publication celebrating the wedding between
Alessandro Barziza and Andriana Berlenda Berlendis. Alessandro
Barziza belonged to an ancient family of merchants
originally from Bergamo, who had moved to Venice and were
subsequently listed in the Golden Book of Venetian nobility.
This explains the rather sumptuous publication on their wedding.
The frontispiece shows the combined family arms surrounded
by two putti.
Morazzoni 294; Pettoello 93; Pinto 1506.
– SAVORGNAN.] Per le
acclamatissime nozze di Sua Eccellenza la nobil donna
Lucrezia Contessa e Marchesa Savorgnan con Sua
Eccellenza il nobil uomo Don Giovanni Marchese
Lambertini gran priore del sacro e militar ordine de’
Santi Maurizio e Lazzarao. Venezia, Simone Occhi, 1762.
4to (318 x 245mm), engraved frontispiece with large shield
and the arms of the two families, pp. 168, with 34 engraved
vignettes as head- and tail-pieces, some of them by Francesco
Bartolozzi; some light spotting, especially at beginning and
end; contemporary silver paper boards, old reback; small
collection stamp to blank margin of title with duplicato
stamp; wide-margined copy.
A handsome collection of celebratory verse produced on the
occasion of the wedding of Lucrezia countess Savorgnan with
Don Giovanni Marquis Lambertini. Included are poems by
Niccolò Bozzoni, Frugoni, Pietro Chirai, Girolamo Bornelli etc.
Morazzoni p. 300; Pettoello 104; Pinto 1296; Saks 184.
– BARBARIGO.] Poesie per le nozze
solenni del N. U. E. Giovanni Barbaro del fu M.r Almorò
Proc. di S. M. con la N. D. Chiara Barbarigo dedicate a S.
E. Cecilia Emo procuratessa Barbaro madre amorosa
dello sposo. [colophon:] [Venezia], nella stamperia
Albrizzi, (1764).
4to (341 x 238mm), pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece and
engraved title, within decorative engraved border, 94, [2]
full-page engraved imprint; with 13 engraved vignettes in
the text; clean marginal tear to B9, not touching text;
original black paper boards, with gilt decorations, arms and
monogram of the Barbaro family in gilt; a fine copy.
A most unusual wedding publication, printed most elegantly
by Albrizzi and decorated with a fine engraved frontispiece
and an elaborate figurative border, but bound in black giltstamped
boards. The work is dedicated to the mother of the
bridegroom Cecilia Emo, Procuratessa Barbaro, whose husband
had apparently died but recently. This might explain the