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Venice: Giovanni Tacuino de Tridino, 1498. CONTEMPORARY CALF-BACKED WOODEN BOARDS (worn and partly defective, rear board nearly detached), remnants of two catches, two repoussé brass scallop shell clasps.             These witty and cruel poems deride decadence in all its forms —…

Florence: L. Torrentino, 1551. INTERIM BINDING OF CONTEMPORARY LIMP VELLUM (soiled), contemporary manuscript title on the spine and bottom edge, evidence of four pigskin ties, edges gauffered in blind; spine lining from a medieval vellum manuscript.             First Edition of the…