GUAZZO, STEFANO.

De civili conversatione libri quatuor. Accuratius nunc Latine redditi ab Henrico Salmuth. Editio postrema.

Amberg, M. Forster, 1598.

12mo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt ruled fillets to boards. Wear to extremities, edges of boards with loss of leather. Inner front hinge split. Annotations in contemporary hand to front free end paper: "Abrahamg Golnitius possidet me Anno 1612" — likely referring to the Danzig travel writer Abraham Gollnitz. Pp. 556–589 feature underlining and numerous neat marginal annotations in ink, likely all made by Gollnitz. First leaves loose and damp-stain to lower outer corner of first half of book block. (24), 730 pp.

Third Latin edition, the second Amberg-edition of this work constituting one of the most important sources on etiquette between the Renaissance and Baroque periods, first published in Italian in 1574.

Order-nr.: 61981