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€ 200 - 400
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€ 284
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Milan, Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1645. In 4th. Beautiful frontispiece engraved in copper with the coat of arms of the city of Milan, intaglio portrait of Mons. Honorato Visconti dedicatee of the work on the reverse of the title page, 13 full-page intaglio portraits, woodcut drop caps, headers and tailpieces, slight marginal foxing, small hole in C3 and E3, rare slight stains, slight traces of humidity on the lower margin of a few pages, binding of a later period in half leather and marbled paper, author and title embossed in gold on the spine with 5 raised bands, defects on spine and hinges, light marks of wear. Paper ex-libris on the flyleaf.
Specialist Notes
Famous work by Paolo Giovio, in an edition embellished with a valuable iconographic apparatus. Predators 150; Cat. Hoepli 706.