Live auction - Lot 809
Live auction - Lot 809
[Antiquity - Drawing]
Storia delle arti del disegno [...]. Tradotta dal tedesco con note originali degli editori.
Milan, A. Maggiore, 1779
Hammer price: €
300
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
2 vol., 4to: lxiv-347, 355-[5] pp.; 18 pl. (occ. staining or sl. foxing, some pp. sl. yellowish, last part of vol. II very browned, one marg. damp stain and foxing in the same part).
Contemp. three-quarter vellum, paper boards, spines with raised bands, red spr. edges ((damp) stains, some wormholes and wormtracks).
First Italian translation by Carlo Amoretti and Angelo Fumagalli illustrated with 18 plates by Carlo Antonio Aspari and Girolamo Mantelli, 21 headpieces, 13 tailpieces and 2 title-vignettes figuring statues, coins, vases, etc. Copy printed on bluish paper.
Ref. Not in STC Italian.
Prov. H.P. Barandun (1940-2020), Swiss businessman and translator, i.a. of the "Satyricon" of Petrone published in 2003 with ill. of Enrico Montalto (anagram of T. Marco Leontino) (orn. silver bookpl. by Montalto). - Thaddei Gronowski (arm. bookpl.).