284 - [Bologna] Statutes of the Honoranda Università de Mercatanti of the illustrious city of Bologna. Bologna, Giaccarello, 1550., The Merchants’ Statutes in 16th-Century Bologna

[Bologna] Statutes of the Honoranda Università de Mercatanti of the illustrious city of Bologna. Bologna, Giaccarello, 1550., The Merchants’ Statutes in 16th-Century Bologna [Bologna] Statutes of the Honoranda University of Merchants of the illustrious city of Bologna. Bologna, Giaccarello, 1550. Folio (296 x 208 mm); [4], 126 leaves. Large printer’s mark on the title page (some foxing on the outer margin). 17th-century full-parchment binding, 5-rib spine with handwritten title, green edges. Ex libris J.K. Rossi. A rare collection of particular interest for the economic history of sixteenth-century Bologna, documenting the organization and regulation of the city’s commercial and entrepreneurial activities in the mid-sixteenth century. The statutes of the merchants of sixteenth-century Bologna