Lot 77
Campo, Antonio
Cremona Fedelissima Città et Nobilissima Colonia de Romani
£550
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 17 June 2020 at 11:00 BST
Description
Cremona: Ippolito Tromba and Ercoliano Bartoli, 1585. Folio, 4 parts in one volume, engraved title-page with engraved portrait of Philip II on verso, woodcut initials, decorative woodcut borders, engraved and woodcut illustrations (mostly portraits), folding engraved map, double-page engraved map, double-page engraved plate (of the cathedral) with further engraved details on versos, later speckled calf, leaf ***4 possibly from a later printing, text at foot of 8*3v obscured, without blank leaf 10*4, woodcut printer's device above colophon, first few leaves and final leaf repaired at edges, engraving on verso of title-page shaved, folding map laid down and slightly damaged, double-page plate slightly torn, joints cracked, binding slightly rubbed [Edit16 8843; IA 130.903; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 100]
Footnote
Note: This seems to be a later state of printing, with the caption "David de Laude Crem. hebreus incid." on the folding map (see Mortimer). The plates were all engraved by Agostino Carracci, according to the note on [2]+2r.
