INGRESSI 1 [VENIER, Girolamo.] Componimenti poetici d’autori diversi in occasione dell'ingresso solenne di sua eccelllenza il signor Girolamo Veniero procurator di S. Marco per merito a sua eccellenza la signora Maria Veniero Contarini di lui figlia. Venezia, appresso Sebastiano Coleti, 1759. 4to (320x 235mm), pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece, title page, 106, [2] blank; 76 engraved vignettes including portraits, arms, and head- and tail-pieces; later patternpaper boards. A fine <strong>collection</strong> <strong>of</strong> poems published on the occasion <strong>of</strong> Girolamo Venier’s accession to the <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> procuratore. Amongst others, Chiari contriubted to the <strong>collection</strong>. All vignettes and twelve fine allegorical borders by F. Bartolozzi, and described in detail 4
y A. De Vesne and A. Calabi, Francesco Bartolozzi, 1928. A detailed account <strong>of</strong> all the engravings and head- and tail-pieces is given in Petoello. Morazzoni p. 281 (wrong collation); Petoello 294; see Saks 132. 2 [REZZONICO, Lodovico.] Componimenti poetici pel solenne ingresso alla dignità di Procuratore di S. Marco di Sua Eccellenza il Signor D. Lodovico Rezzonico Cavalier, Principe del Senato, e del Popolo Romano. Venezia, (nella stamperia Zatta), 1762. 4to (338x234mm), pp. 56, with engraved allegorical frontispiece, title within engraved border by Magnini and with engraved vignette by the same, engraved arms, title printed in red and black, text printed within elaborate engraved figurative borders showing musical instruments, shells, putti, scenes <strong>of</strong> Venice etc, and 10 vignettes as head- and endpieces; modern full pattern paper boards, from the Rava <strong>collection</strong>, with bookplate <strong>of</strong> the Biblioteca Terzio. One <strong>of</strong> the most elaborate productions, with thirty-six different borders used to frame the text. The poems are by Gaetano Gotti, Stefano Orsini, G. Iacopo Monti, Gius. Petrosellini, Ramondo Cunich, Daniele Florio, Antonio Macalchin, Arcangelo Mariani, Ermineo Partenio and others. Apparently also including one poem by Gasparo Gozzi (sonnet 34), see manuscript note to front endpaper. The fine vignette on p. xx is <strong>of</strong> the Villa Gozzi at Visinale. Thirty-six borders different borders are used. Lapiccirella 74; Morazzoni p. 279; Petoello 305; Soranzo 6471; Saks 131. 3. [VENIER, Sebastiano.] Raccolta di varj componimenti poetici per l’ingresso alla dignità di Procurator di San Marco di Sua Eccellenza Mr. Sebastiano Venier. Venezia, Zatta, 1762. 4to (pp. 310 x230mm), pp. [iv], [vii]-lviii, text within fifteen different figurative borders, showing putti, animals, fruit, birds et, and 8 vignettes <strong>of</strong> portraits surrounded by putti; original yellow stiff wrappers, overprinted in red with rectangular pattern, central arms <strong>of</strong> the Venier family; some light damp-staining to wrappers, leading to discolouration, small section strenghtened from verso. The vignettes show portraits within an oval frame, other show views <strong>of</strong> Venice, engraving by F. Magnini.The text includes poetical compositions in Italian, Latin, Greek and Venetian dialect by various authors, among them A. Cotto Franchetti, G.B. Ramenzini, A. Rieri, g. Pujati, S. Epiziano, F. Deseatide, G. Manzoni, M. Fiecco, G. Biscaccia etc. Lapiccirella 79; Morazzoni 281; Petoello 310 with extensive note on frontispiece and border; Soranzo 6946; not in Saks; (collation correct, just like the Getty copy). 4 [MOROSINI, Francesco.] Poesie per l’ingresso solenne di sua eccellenza il signor cavaliere Francesco Morosini alla dignità di procuratora di S. Marco per merito. - Venezia, Luigi Pavini, 1763. 5