Genealogiae Joannis Boccatii : cum demonstrationibus in formis arborũ designatis : eiusdẽ de mõtibus [et] syluis, de fontibus, lacubus [et] fluminibus : ac etiã de stagnis [et] paludibus, necnon [et] de maribus, seu diuersis maris nominibus

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 · 1511 · Venetiis : Per Agustinum de Zannis de Portesio · 20 pictures

A 1511 Venetian printing of Giovanni Boccaccio's Latin treatises on classical gods, mountains, forests, rivers, lakes and seas, issued by the printer Agostino de Zannis for scholarly readers. Its pictures are small woodcut historiated and foliate initials, with one set in black-ground white-line blocks and others in outline, with putti, a bird and leafy scrolls that a designer could adapt for decorative capitals and border ornament.

Mythology, Classical -- Early works to 1800 · Geography, Medieval

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