Lot 1267: LOMAZZO, GIOVANNI PAOLO.

Idea del tempio della pittura... nella quale egli discorre dell'origine, & fondamento delle cose contenute nel suo trattato dell'arte della pittura. Milan: Paolo Gottardo da Ponte, (1590)

Condition Note:

first edition, 4to (201 x 146mm.), [32], 168pp., illustration : woodcut portrait medallion of the author after Annibale Fontana on title-page, woodcut initials, binding : eighteenth-century speckled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece, red speckled edges, small water-stain towards end, binding very slightly rubbed

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LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Censimento 16 CNCE 24458; Cicognara 162