Contarini, Gasparo. De potestate pontificis, quod divinitus sit tradita. Venice, Giordano Ziletti, 1562. In 8° (160 x 110 mm);34, [6] papers. Typographical mark to title page and at end of volume (stain to side.) Coeval vellum binding (stain to rear plate). Exemplar with beards. Also in the lot are Leon Battista Alberti's Hecatomphila of 1534, the Rime of M. Giovan Girolamo de' Rossi of 1711,Antonio Quarenghi's Hexametri carminis libri sex of 1618,De Clitophontis et Leucippes amoribus libri VIII of 1587, Opus Merlini Cocaii of 1585, and a specimen with barbs of the Introduction to the Practical History of Medals of 1673. (7)

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