Bidspirit auction | Cavalcanti, Bartolomeo

Cavalcanti, Bartolomeo - Cavalcanti, Bartolomeo - The rhetoric, 1585. Venice, by Fabio and Agostin Zoppini brothers, 1585. In 8°. Full parchment binding with title and author handwritten in black ink on the spine. Publisher's mark on the title page depicting a haloed woman, Truth, with open arms, seated between a lion and an eagle on the right and a bull and an angel on the left. Woodcut initials and friezes. Woodworms with loss of text on the last leaves, light browning and slight damage to the book's binding.