LA EXPOSITIONE DEL PATER NOSTER, COMPOSTA PER FRATE GIROLAMO DA FERRARA. by SAVONAROLA, Girolamo.:

(Florence, Bartolommeo de Libri), circa 1495.. INCUNABULA, circa 1495, ITALIAN TEXT, bound in eights, approximately 200 x 135 mm, 7¾ x 5¼ inches, 24 leaves without pagination, as issued (48 pages), a1-c8, 34 lines, the last 2 words are "senza spirito", then "Finis", capital spaces. Fo.a1: WOODCUT of Christ praying on the Mount of Olives with title above, bound in early 19th century limp vellum, bookplate of Holland House on pastedown. Vellum dusty and crinkled, lower inner margins slightly wormed throughout to varying degrees, not affecting text, some pale browning and pale soiling to margins, occasional brown spot, pale ink numbers to top corners, otherwise a very good copy. See: Italian library ICCU, record number 2; BLC page 720, col.832; Max Sanders, Le Livre A Figures Italien 1476-1530, No. 6780: Brunet, Manuel Du Libraire, Volume 5, column 160; Henry Huth, Catalogue of the Famous Library, Seventh Portion, page 1844, No VIII; Paul Kristeller, Early Florentine Woodcuts, With an Annotated List of Florentine Illustrated Books, pages 155-156, No 384B, and page ix, "The original editions of the "Rappresentazioni" of the Savonarola tracts, or of popular poems, have rarely more than one cut, that on title page." MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.