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Andreini, Giovanni Battista

The Adam, 1617

Estimate

€ 150 - 250

Sold

€ 384

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Information

Milan, Girolamo Bordoni, 1617. In 4 °. Splendid allegorical engraved title page and 38 superb illustrations, engraved on copper in the text, by Cesare Bassano, who worked on the drawings of the Lombard painter Carlo Antonio Procaccini, burnished frontispiece, some papers with marginal tears, a c.D tear affecting the image but without lacks, no binding, only the back cardboard is present .

Specialist Notes

SECOND EDITION of one of the most successful texts of 17th century theatrical publishing. Originally published in 1613, it is here substantially re-imprinted with minor variations. Salvioli considers it "the composition that can be called the dramatic masterpiece of the seventeenth century"; the text was also a primary source of inspiration for Milton's Paradise Lost .

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