Ventes live - Lot 539
[Facsimile - Manuscript]
Cento tavole del Codice Resta.
Milan, (Credito Italiano), 1955
€ 150 / 250
Enchérir en direct (Drouot*) Enchérir en direct (Invaluable*)Les enchères sont closes
Description du lot
Folio; 100 pl. protected with tissues captionned in Italian, French, English and German.
Publisher's binding: half brown leather, plates reproducing the original binding, spine with raised bands (joint part. broken, lower turn-in lacking, corners and edges rubbed).
Beautiful reproduction, on strong paper, of a selection of 100 drawings in the sizes and colours of the originals, of one of the most famous codices of the Ambrosian Library (Milan), with a "Presentation" in Italian, French, English and German. The drawings have been reproduced on one side of each page, as in the original codex which consists of 224 plates containing 248 drawings, mostly by Italian artists, collected by Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714), scholar and art collector. Limited edition to 2030 copies (numb. 685).