1654 Scarce Italian Vellum Book - Jesuit Daniello Bartoli - L’Eternita Consigliera (Eternity as Counselor).
This book has been sold, but we regularly acquire comparable copies.
Author: Daniello Bartoli.
Title : L’Eternita Consigliera.
Language: Text in Italian.
Publisher: In Venetia, Per Francesco Baba, 1654. (Second edition - first being 1653).
Size: 6 " X 3.5 ".
Pages: 331 pages.
Binding: Very good full vellum binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - mainly on spine - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining, name of a previous owner on first blank and on the lower margin of illustrated title page - as shown).
Illustration: Complete with the nice engraved title page.
Estimate : (USD 300- USD 400)
The book: A very rare find - nice 17th-century Italian second edition of Bartoli's classic work - L’Eternita Consigliera.
The author: Daniello Bartoli (12 February 1608 – 13 January 1685) was an Italian Jesuit writer and historiographer, celebrated by the poet Giacomo Leopardi as the "Dante of Italian prose".