1664 Scarce Italian Vellum Book - Jesuit Daniello Bartoli - L’Eternita Consigliera (Eternity as Counselor).
Author: Daniello Bartoli.
Title : L’Eternita Consigliera.
Language: Text in Italian.
Publisher: In Venetia, Appresso Nicolo Pezzana, 1664.
Size: 6 " X 3.5 ".
Pages: 331 pages.
Binding: Very good original 17th-century full vellum binding (hinges fine, overall worn and scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content: Good to very good content (bright, tight and clean, some light foxing and staining - as shown, some holes in the inner margin of some pages and to the lower margin of the last page - as shown, handwritten ex-libris of a previous owner on the title page - as shown).
Illustration: Complete with the nice engraved title page.
Estimate : (USD 300 - USD 400)
The book: A rare find - nice 17th-century Italian 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".