Boccaccio, Giovanni: The Decameron... and its true lesson reduced by Cavalier Lionardo Salviati... Venice, Pietro Maria Bertano 1638

Format in-8°, mm. 220x160, pp. (16), 472. Complete. Contemporary binding (loosened) in full parchment with handwritten titles on the spine (faded). Copy with light water stain on the last 40 leaves or so and sporadic foxing.

The Decameron by Messer Giovanni Boccacci..., Newly reprinted, and verified in Florence with ancient texts, & its true reading reduced by Cavalier Lionardo Salviati... Venice, 1638. Woodcut typographic device on the title page, woodcut figure in the text on f. A1. Woodcut headpieces and capital letters. Famous work by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), new edition (the first in 1582) edited by the well-known philologist and humanist Lionardo Salviati (1539-1589).