Lot 123
Rossi (Giovanni Battista) Vita et miracula Seraphici Patris Sancti Francisci, fine engraved plates, 1639.
Estimate: £600 - 800
Description
Rossi (Giovanni Battista de), Publisher. Vita et miracula Seraphici Patris Sancti Francisci, fine engraved pictorial title and 39 engraved plates, sheet 232 x 170mm., partial outlining to title in ink, some foxing, a few small stains, lightly browned, 19th century half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, small 4to, Rome, Apud Io. Baptistam de Rubeis, 1639.
⁂ Scarce. The plates were possibly engraved by Philippe Thomassin (1562-1622) or an engraver in his circle. Thomassin's stock of circa 250 engraved plates ultimately ended up with the Rossi publishing house (see: Consagra, F., The De' Rossi Family Print Publishing Shop: A Study in the History of the Print Industry in Sixteenth-Century Rome, Baltimore, MD, 1993, Appendix 3, passim.]
Description
Rossi (Giovanni Battista de), Publisher. Vita et miracula Seraphici Patris Sancti Francisci, fine engraved pictorial title and 39 engraved plates, sheet 232 x 170mm., partial outlining to title in ink, some foxing, a few small stains, lightly browned, 19th century half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, small 4to, Rome, Apud Io. Baptistam de Rubeis, 1639.
⁂ Scarce. The plates were possibly engraved by Philippe Thomassin (1562-1622) or an engraver in his circle. Thomassin's stock of circa 250 engraved plates ultimately ended up with the Rossi publishing house (see: Consagra, F., The De' Rossi Family Print Publishing Shop: A Study in the History of the Print Industry in Sixteenth-Century Rome, Baltimore, MD, 1993, Appendix 3, passim.]
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