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CAMPO, Antonio (d.ca.1591). Cremona fedelissima citta. Cremona: Ippolito Tromba and Ercoliano Bartoli for tha author, 1585.
2° (403 x 260mm). Text within ornamental woodcut borders, large woodcut initials, with blank 10*4 and +3 a cancel. Engraved title with portrait of Philip II on verso, large folding plan of Cremona (torn, loosely inserted), double-page map of the area around Cremona, 5 plates on 4 leaves (2 folding, all from the 1645 4° edition and loosely inserted), 2 illustrations (one a full-page personification of the city, the second of a "carroccio" leaving the city), 33 medallion portrait illustrations by AGOSTINO CARRACCI and others (including a duplicate of the Philip II portrait with the edges masked in white ink, as called-for). One woodcut medallion portrait illustration. (Neat old repairs to margins of first four leaves and N1, small hole in the border of A2, tear to lower border of C4.) Old vellum, later spine labels (lightly soiled).
FIRST EDITION. Mortimer discusses the the merits and sources of the various portraits, mainly Dukes of Milan and Dukes of Cremona, including a portrait of Massimiliano of Milan from a, now lost, painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Many of the engravings and portraits, taken from models in Paolo Giovio's museum, are by or after Caracci, vid. Bohlin Prints and Drawings by the Caracci family. 1979 nos. 56-62. Adams C-489; Mortimer Harvard Italian 100.
2° (403 x 260mm). Text within ornamental woodcut borders, large woodcut initials, with blank 10*4 and +3 a cancel. Engraved title with portrait of Philip II on verso, large folding plan of Cremona (torn, loosely inserted), double-page map of the area around Cremona, 5 plates on 4 leaves (2 folding, all from the 1645 4° edition and loosely inserted), 2 illustrations (one a full-page personification of the city, the second of a "carroccio" leaving the city), 33 medallion portrait illustrations by AGOSTINO CARRACCI and others (including a duplicate of the Philip II portrait with the edges masked in white ink, as called-for). One woodcut medallion portrait illustration. (Neat old repairs to margins of first four leaves and N1, small hole in the border of A2, tear to lower border of C4.) Old vellum, later spine labels (lightly soiled).
FIRST EDITION. Mortimer discusses the the merits and sources of the various portraits, mainly Dukes of Milan and Dukes of Cremona, including a portrait of Massimiliano of Milan from a, now lost, painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Many of the engravings and portraits, taken from models in Paolo Giovio's museum, are by or after Caracci, vid. Bohlin Prints and Drawings by the Caracci family. 1979 nos. 56-62. Adams C-489; Mortimer Harvard Italian 100.