Artists' Lives.- [Cecchi (Giovanni Battista), Ignazio Hugerford and others.] Serie degli Uomini i Piu Illustri nella Pittura, Scultura, e Architettura, 12 vol., additional engraved pictorial title, half-titles, numerous engraved plates, occasional minor stains and scattered browning, endpapers and pastedowns often browned, vol. 7 endpaper and half-title affixed, contemporary calf-backed boards covered with a floral patterned paper, spines gilt, some light toning and abrasions to covers, a few tiny worm holes to spines, wear to corners, [Brunet V 303], large 8vo, Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1769-75
⁂ An attractive first edition set of this powerful historical-biographical-artistic work dedicated to artists - primarily Italian, but also Flemish, Dutch, German, French, and Spanish - from the Renaissance to the mid-eighteenth century with biography and portrait of each.
Provenance: from the library of Vincenzo Maria Carafa, Prince of Roccella [bookplates].
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