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CAMPO, Antonio. Cremona Fedelissima Citta et Nobilissima Colonia, Cremona: in casa dell'istesso auttore [per Hippolito Tromba, & Hercoliano Bartoli, 1585] [date on title obscured], 2°, FIRST EDITION, engraved title after the author with engraved medallion portrait of Philip of Austria on verso, 33 engraved and one woodcut medallion portrait, engraved scene of a chariot procession leaving Cremona on B3, folding plan of Cremona after David de Laude on 3 joined sheets (affected by clean 220mm. tear), double-page map of Cremona, double-page plate of the Cathedral, woodcut initials and borders (lacking +2, first 2 quires affected by light worming, D3 with small hole causing loss to one character recto and one on verso), old pasteboards (upper cover detached, spine lacking). [Adams C489; Brunet I, 1526: "fort rare ... les curieux le recherchent surtout à cause des gravures d'Augustin Carrache dont elle est ornée"; Mortimer Italian 100]