Susanne Schulz-Falster Rare Books A magnificent collection of forty ...

17 BUTTURINI, Mattia. L’Unione del Senno e della Fortuna cantata per la gloriosa
esaltazione a doge di Venezia del serenissimo Lodovico Manin fatta eseguire dalla
nobile Società de' Filarmonici li 19 maggio 1789. [colophon:] (Venezia), Palese, 1789.
4to (261x197 mm), engraved frontispiece within decorative rococo border, pp. 15;
contemporary orange coloured boards.
The music was by Ferdinando Bretoni, maesto della Cappella di San Marco, the
libretto by Mattia Butturini.
Morazzoni 272; Petoello 448.
18 [ALBRIZZI.] BARBADICO, Nicolao. Andreae Gritti principis venetiarum vita.
Vita Nicolao Barbadico Auctore Alexandro Albrittio procuratoris divi marci
dignitatem ineunte primum edita. Venezia, Typis Caroli Palesii, 1792.
4to, engraved frontispiece, [viii] including initial blank, 15, [1] blank, lv, [2] blank;
with six engraved medallions in the text and on the title page; lower corner with light
faint dampstain to first signature; original pink paper board, overprinted in white
with the arms of the Albrizzi family, surrounded by floral border; verso with Eviva
initials, again within border; a very fine copy.
The frontispiece shows a portrait medallion of the profile of the doge Andrea Gritti
with verso of Venezia surrounded by its attributes. Curiously all the medallions
included in the work illustrate the doge Andrea Gritti. Expression of classical taste in
Venetian art.
Morazzoni p. 264 (wrong collation); Lapiccirella 38; Cicogna 2316; Petoello 458.
19 [ALBRIZZI, Alessandro.] Componimenti poetici di varii autori in lode di Venezia
raccolti nell'Ingresso di Sua Eccellenza il Signor Alessandro Albrizzi alla dignità di
Procuratore di San Marco. - Venezia, Carlo Palese, 1792.
4to (301x216mm), pp. [viii], 120, [2] blank; engraved frontispiece by T Viero after F.
Bartolozzi, engraved vignette to title with the arms of the Albrizzi family; original
green paper board overprinted in white with the arms of the Albrizzi family
surrounded by elaborate floral rococo border; lower board with Eviva initials,
manuscript spine label; from the Rava collection, with printed ex-libris; a very fine
copy.
The work contains poetic contributions by B. Cappello, D. Venier, G. Alaleona, S.
Bettinelli, and idyllo ‘Il Proteo by Ant. Conti, a verse epistle addressed to Marco
Foscarini by F. Algarotti and the ‘Treasformazione di Adria by T.G. Farsetti. The work
was compiled by Jacobo Morelli.
Binding: overprinted from woodblocks. The frontispiece is a variant of the one used
in ‘Nozze Manin-Dolfin in 1765.
Morazzoni p. 264; Lapiccirella 37; Petoello 460; Soranzo 2627., Sotheby’s 32; Saks
112.
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