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

y A. De Vesne and A. Calabi, Francesco Bartolozzi, 1928. A detailed account of 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 of Venice etc, and 10
vignettes as head- and endpieces; modern full pattern paper boards, from the Rava
collection, with bookplate of the Biblioteca Terzio.
One of 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 of 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 of portraits
surrounded by putti; original yellow stiff wrappers, overprinted in red with
rectangular pattern, central arms of 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 of 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