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Doni (Anton Francesco) I Marmi, 4 parts in 1, collation: A- X4; Aa-Pp4; a4, B-X4; AA-MM4, first part-title with large woodcut globe device of the globe fromDoni's I Mondi, other part-titles with different device, each part with final woodcut device within full-page scrollwork borders, full-page woodcut portraits, A1 & A2 slightly foxed and bearing small blind-stamp,1552bound with [Bidpai]. La Moral Filosophia..., edited byDoni, collation: A-V4, woodcut frontispiece device within full-page scrollwork borders, title with large woodcut globe device,1552, together 2 works in 1, numerous woodcut illustrations, decorations and initials, bookplate of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, old inscription on front fly-leaf, late 17th century speckled calf, spine gilt with partly ablated volume reference to one compartment, small tear to head of spine, small 4to, Venice, Francesco Marcolini 1552 ⁂ The first edition ofDoni's characteristically unconventional series of imaginary dialogues between numerous figures, historical and fictional, conversing and arguing on the marble steps of Florence's Duomo over a wide range of subjects, including contemporary economics, printing, literature and history. The second work present, Bidpai's fables, is significant not least as it wasDoni's selection that was used as the primary source for Sir Thomas North's 1568 English translation, preceding by several years the first English editions of Aesop and the Dialogus creaturarum moralizatus Provenance: Bookplate of the noted French bibliophile Nicholas-Joseph Foucault (1643-1721); the Macclesfield copy, Sotheby's October 2008, lot 4440. Literature: Adams D824 & B1997; Mortimer Harvard Italian 165 & 65; EDIT 16 CNCE 17692