POLO, MARCO

Delle cose meravigliose del mondo.

POLO, MARCO .

Delle cose meravigliose del mondo. Printer: Giovanni Battista Sessa. Venice, 13th June 1496. Size 18 x 12,5 cm. 84 leaves (168 pages). Gothic and Romanic lettering. Xylographic initials.

Incunabulum printed in Venice, by the printer and bookseller Giovanni Battista Sessa, 13th June 1496, which offers the first Italian edition of the famous voyage of Marco Polo.

The Royal Palace Library of Madrid zealously guards this incunabulum of enormous worth, originating from the Library of the Count of Gondomar. It has the great transcendence of being the only known copy in Spain.

-Our edition: Valencia, 1995. Coedited with Patrimonio Nacional. Taken from the copy of the Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid.

-Edition of 3.000 copies, numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.

-Binding: Parchment on wooden board.

-Presentation case cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile and study in Spanish.

-Specially made laid paper.

-Study in Spanish carried out by María Luisa López Vidriero (Director of the Royal Palace Library of Madrid). Included in Bibliofilia Antigua III.