Genealogie Joannis Boccatii: Cum Demonstrationibus in Formis Arborum Designatis. Daran: De Montibus, Silvis, Fontibus, Lacubus, Fluminibus, Stagnis seu Paludibus, de Nominibus Maris

Giovanni Boccaccio; Domenico Silvestri

Venice: Manfredus de Bonellis, de Monteferrato, 1497

[Incunable] Folio, 33 cm. Bound in handsome, modern 1/4 oasis goatskin over wooden boards.  Linen-silk end joints.  Front board is older wood and has the remnants of the metal claps.  152 leaves (of 161 called for).  Lacking gathering g and h1 (9 leaves). 62, 63 lines to a page.  Engraved letters.  12 engraved genealogical plates. Title page washed and with minor, professional restoration work.  Some minor staining (primarily to colophon page).  Early marginalia.  

Includes a related letter with an old invoice and details of the restoration work from M.A. Thornton of Traditional Bookcrafts, Wigtown, Scotland.  

Refs: Hain/Copinger 3324. Pell-Pol 2470. Pol 713. IGI 1801. BMC V, 504 (IB. 23825). Goff B 754. IBP 1090. CIH 700. Sander 1078. Essling 800.  Second illustrated edition, a reprint of the ed. by Octavianus Scotus in 1494.