MARIANI, Giovanni (attivo 1531) - Tariffa perpetua con le ragion fatte per scontro de qualunque mercadante si voglia. Venice: Francesco Rampaetto, 1575.   One of the about ten early editions of this bestseller printed between 1553 and 1593 by Giovanni Mariani, an official in the camere degl'Imprestiti. The book was chiefly written, as Mariani informs us in the preface, for merchants without warehouses, who are constrained to carry on their business while carrying their goods with them. At the end there is a short treatise on weights and measures.   8vo (155 x 88mm). Fine title with woodcut border, large woodcut of the Madonna and Child at end, with final blank (some wear to outer edges of the first leaves including title, occasional browning and spotting, few sporadic wormholes). Contemporary limp vellum, some manuscript annotations (wear and some losses).

Estimate € 100 - 150

Sold € 240