Augustini Valerii patricii Veneti S.R.E. cardinalis, episcopi Veronensis Opusculum numquam antehac editum de cautione adhibenda in edendis libris. Nec non Bernardi cardinalis Naugerii vita, eodem Valerio auctore. Accessere Petri Barrocii episcopi Patavini orationes tres e MSS. nunc primum erutae. Nonnullae item aliae patriciorum Venetorum quarum duae nondum typis descriptae fuerant.
Agostino Valier (1530-1606)
Category
Books
Date
1719
Materials
Place of origin
Padua
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3217138
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxviii, 317, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 4to. Running number: 7254. Water-staining and cockling throughout. Insect damage on endpapers. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ε'." [i.e. epsilon' = Greek number 5]. Manuscript initials on rear fly-leaf: "J:B:". Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf (water damaged and stained); sewn onto five sewing supports; blind roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with floral stamp and roll pattern decoration; gilt title label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Agostino Valier (1530-1606) Barozzi, Pietro Giovanni Antonio Volpi (1686-1766)