Susanne Schulz-Falster - Schulz-Falster Rare Books

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[VENIER,
Sebastiano.] Raccolta di varj
componimenti poetici per l’ingresso alla dignità di
Procuratore di San Marco di Sua Eccellenza Mr.
Sebastiano Venier. Venezia, Zatta, 1762.
4to (310 x 230mm), pp. [iv], [vii]–lviii, text within fifteen
different figurative borders, showing putti, animals, fruit,
birds etc., and 8 portrait vignettes surrounded by putti;
original yellow stiff wrappers, overprinted in red with
rectangular pattern, central arms of the Venier family; some
light damp-staining to wrappers, leading to discolouration,
small section strengthened from verso.
The vignettes show portraits within an oval frame, others show
views of Venice, and are by Bartolozzi and Magnini. The text
includes poetical compositions in Italian, Latin, Greek and
Venetian dialect by various authors, among them A. Cotto
Franchetti, G. B. Ramenzini, A. Rieri, G. Pujati, S. Epiziano,
F. Deseatide, G. Manzoni, M. Fiecco, G. Biscaccia, etc.
Lapiccirella 79; Morazzoni 281; Pettoello 310 with extensive note on
frontispiece and border; Soranzo 6946; not in Saks; (collation correct,
just like the Getty copy).