£180
[Pezzi (Lorenzo)], Vinea Domini: cum breui descriptione sacramentor[um] et Paradisi, Limbi, Purgatorij, atq[ue] Inferni, à cathechismo catholicis q[ue] patribus excerpta, first edition, Venetiis [Venice]: Apud Hier. Porrum [i.e. Girolamo Porro], 1588, engraved title-page, historiated and foliated initials, decorative headers and footers, complete, collating: A⁸ *-**² B-M⁸ N⁷ i.e. [xxiv], 59, [1] (errata), [1] (colophon), [3] (blanks), [61]- 186pp, illustrated with 13 engravings, including the double-page Last Judgment, ffep and first two leaves with worm trails to inner-gutter, quire E just holding, the well-proportioned lower-margin from G6 to the end with a graduating and then fading worm trail, never approaching letters, some minor handling marks in places, contemporary vellum over limp boards, beginning to split, but holding well, recto pastedown with contemporaneous ink MS ownership? inscription, verso with MS numbering, 8vo
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