Polidoro da Caravaggio (c.1499-1543)
Schediasmata selecta
£945
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
ex archetypis di Musaeo Honi. viris A. Hume Bart. Conservatis, fideliter imitata, auctore C. M. Metz. [London: no publisher], 1789. Oblong folio (30.5 x 47cm), allegorical title-page and 61 plates by Conrad Martin Metz (all but the title-page after Polidoro da Caravaggio), sepia etchings with aquatint in imitation of chiaroscuro woodcuts, most numbered in the plate (erratically towards rear), disbound (retaining front board), title-page creased and dust-soiled, occasional spotting, pencilled foliation and a few damp-stains to upper outer corners not affecting images, collation not established and the lot sold as a collection of plates
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.