Li Scrittori della Liguria e Particolarmente della Maritima

Genova: Pietro Giovanni Calenzani, 1667. Very Good. Genova: Pietro Giovanni Calenzani, in Piazza nuova, 1667. First Edition. Quarto (21cm.); contemporary limp parchment recently rebacked; [16],300pp. (collated complete); engraved half title page signed in image by Domenico Piola, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Parchment a bit cracked along spine edges where the original binding meets the new, contemporary manuscript titling to bottom textblock edge, remnant of ex libris to rear pastedown, occasional soil to textblock, else Very Good and sound.

Detailed bio-bibliography of the authors of the region of Liguria in north-western Italy. Beautifully adorned with an appropriately book-strewn engraving by the Genoese Baroque painter and printmaker Domenico Piola (1627-1703).