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MITELLI, Giuseppe Maria (1634-1718). Alfabeto in sogno. Esemplare per disegnare, [Bologna: no printer], 1683 [but later]. 2° (365 x 248mm to 393 x 304mm). Engraved title and 20 plates. (Lacks letters H, L & R, a little staining and spotting.) Unbound in worn portfolio. Bonacini 1196 'È il capolavoro del Mitelli'
[PICCHI, Cesare. Cancellaresche corsive per secretarij. Libro I, Rome: Martinus van Buyten sculpsit, 1598]. Oblong 4° (page 195 x 272mm, calligraphic examples 74 x 171mm). 31 mounted engraved plates (of 38), all trimmed to the platemark. (Some staining and foxing, a few towards the end a little wormed.) Modern cloth. Bonacini 1422.
OLOD, Luis de. Tratado del origen y arte de escribir bien, Gerona: Narciso Oliva, [c.1800], 2° (296 x 204mm). Engraved oval portrait within a wide calligraphic border, dedication leaf to Charles III of Spain and 20 plates, 2 leaves of woodcut and letterpress alphabets at the end. (Some foxing.) Contemporary vellum (rather soiled). Bonacini 1310 (calling for 4 leaves at the end and dating the work to c.1770).
And 6 similar works (one in the same folder as the Mitelli), all incomplete (Bonacini 168, 1310, 333, 885, cf. 1333 & 66); the lot sold not subject to return. (8)
[PICCHI, Cesare. Cancellaresche corsive per secretarij. Libro I, Rome: Martinus van Buyten sculpsit, 1598]. Oblong 4° (page 195 x 272mm, calligraphic examples 74 x 171mm). 31 mounted engraved plates (of 38), all trimmed to the platemark. (Some staining and foxing, a few towards the end a little wormed.) Modern cloth. Bonacini 1422.
OLOD, Luis de. Tratado del origen y arte de escribir bien, Gerona: Narciso Oliva, [c.1800], 2° (296 x 204mm). Engraved oval portrait within a wide calligraphic border, dedication leaf to Charles III of Spain and 20 plates, 2 leaves of woodcut and letterpress alphabets at the end. (Some foxing.) Contemporary vellum (rather soiled). Bonacini 1310 (calling for 4 leaves at the end and dating the work to c.1770).
And 6 similar works (one in the same folder as the Mitelli), all incomplete (Bonacini 168, 1310, 333, 885, cf. 1333 & 66); the lot sold not subject to return. (8)
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