Contile, Luca - La Agia. Egloga of Contile recited by the above humana donna Hipolita Gonzaga, and many other of her gentlewomen Milan, Valerio & Girolamo Meda, 1552. 8°. Typographic mark to frontispiece and end volume of Vigilance (woman leaning on column with an apple in her right hand and a snake in her left, framed with the motto: Neque vi neque dolo, binding in full 18th-century stiff vellum with red cuts, gold decoration to spine and title on red gusset. Specimen from the bookseller Giuseppe Martini, as per his note in pencil on the verso of the counterplate.

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