CARCANI, Vittorio Ad Sistum Quintum…quinta oratio. Messina Fausti Bufalini 1587
4to. 13ff. (of 14, lacks the initial blank). Large engraved portrait of Sixtus V on title-page, 3 eoodcut initials, in modern boards.
Probably the second edition of this gratulatory address to Sixtus V (reigned 1585-1590) in which the author also deals with problems with the Turks and remedies for them. Ascarelli-Menato record Bufalini as printing in Messina only between 1588 and 1602, the year of his death. ‘Fecondo tipografo messinese, usò quasi sempre i caratteri corsivi, ornò elegantemente di incisioni le sue opere e fu il primo, in Sicilia, a stampare in greco’.Censimento CNCE 9416 (3 copies); not in BMC, Adams, Mira or RLIN.
£450
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