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CARRACCI, Annibale (1560-1609). Le arti di Bologna disegnate da Annibale Caracci ed intagliate da Simone Guilini coll' assistenza di Alessandro Algardi. Aggiuntavi la Vita del sudetto Annibale Caracci. Rome: Gregorio Roisecco, 1740.
2° (435 x 285mm). Title with woodcut vignette. Engraved portrait of Caracci and 80 plates of itinerant trades by Guilini, extra-illustrated with a later cut- and laid-down double-page portrait of Caracci. (Occasional light spotting, heavier to the final plate, plate numbered 75 with short tear to lower blank margin.) Contemporary vellum over pasteboard, morocco lettering-piece on spine, later gilt arms of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (small neat repairs to head and foot of spine and corners). Provenance: Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878, binding and armorial bookplate); Achibald Stirling of Keir (bookplate).
2° (435 x 285mm). Title with woodcut vignette. Engraved portrait of Caracci and 80 plates of itinerant trades by Guilini, extra-illustrated with a later cut- and laid-down double-page portrait of Caracci. (Occasional light spotting, heavier to the final plate, plate numbered 75 with short tear to lower blank margin.) Contemporary vellum over pasteboard, morocco lettering-piece on spine, later gilt arms of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (small neat repairs to head and foot of spine and corners). Provenance: Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878, binding and armorial bookplate); Achibald Stirling of Keir (bookplate).