Lot 1293: MALVASIA, CARLO CESARE (1616-1693).

Felsina pittrice, vite de pittori bolognesi... divisa in duoi tomi, con indici copiosissimi. Bologna: heirs of Domenico Barbieri for Gio. Francesco Davico, 1678

Condition Note:

2 volumes, 4to (233 x 160mm.), [16], 581, [1]; 606, [2]pp., illustration : woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut illustrations and portraits of artists, binding : contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments, speckled edges, lacking 2 leaves of preliminaries in vol.2, extremities slightly rubbed

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PROVENANCE

Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, bookplate
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Cicognara 2310
CATALOGUE NOTE

first edition. A third volume was produced by Luigi Crespi in 1769.