Lot 1014: MARINO, Giambattista L'Adone, poema heroico [...]. Con gli argomenti del co

MARINO, Giambattista L'Adone, poema heroico [...]. Con gli argomenti del conte Sanvitale, e l'allegorie di Don Lorenzo Scoto. Aggiuntevi la tavola delle cose notabili. Di nuovo ricorreto, e di figure ornatto. Amsterdam Daniel Elzevier, Paris, sold by Th. Jolly 1678 4 vol., 24mo: 373, 301, 357, 310-[25-1 bl.] pp. (missing S3 in vol. I, occ. dampstains in vol. II, wormholes affecting text in vol. III, occ. marg. defects). Contemp. red morocco (1 corner damaged), gilt rule on covers, gilt orn. spines on 4 raised bands, gilt inside dentelle, gilt sides, a.e.g. Uncommon Elzevier edition of the most famous work of the Italian baroque poet Marino (1569-1625), 1st publ. Paris 1623 and dedicated to King Louis XIII. Ill. (complete) with front. and 20 engr. plates (7, 5, 5, 3, one for each canto) by Sébastien Le Clerc. Marino "is considered the founder of the school of Marinism, later known as "Secentismo" (17th century) or "Marinismo" (19th century), characterised by its use of extravagant and excessive conceits" (Wikipedia). Marino was widely admired and imitated through Europe, and often republished in the 17th c. Ref. Willems 1549. - STCN. - Bn-Opale plus. - COPAC. Prov. Mary Simpson Sorley, British woman bookbinder active at the end of the 19th c. (nice illustrated bookplate with motto "Give me a nook and a book", cf. M Tidcombe, Women bookbinders).