Xenophon. I fatti de greci. Venice, Giolito de Ferrari, 1548. In 8° (162 x 104 mm);153 [but 157], [7] papers. Typographical mark to title page and colophon (stains to colophon, slight halo.) Coeval vellum binding with greaseproofing, traces of two endpapers, vertical manuscript title to spine. Marginal copy of the edition in Lodovico Domenichi's translation. Also in the lot is Dione Delle guerre de romani of 1548 with ex libris nobiliare, and De praestantia, et nobilitate by Carlo Tebaldo of 1689. (3)

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