Author: James Dennistoun
Title: Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy from 1440 to 1630
Description: London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this three volume work collecting the memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino with illustrations. First edition of Memoirs of The Dukes of Urbino, Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 to 1630 by James Dennistoun.In the original publisher's blue cloth with decorative gilt. Complete in three beautifully illustrated volumes.Volume I has fifteen illustrations, Volume II has nineteen, and Volume III has twelve. Includes plates, folding maps and folding tables. Plate XLIV is loose. In the original publisher's cloth bindings. Externally, smart. There is some bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and to the extremities. The hinges are starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot. Plate XLIV is loose. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: Dukes of Urbino Italian history Renaissance First edition Italian history Not Stated


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