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DATI, Carlo Roberto. Vite de pittori antichi. Florence: stamperia della Stella, 1667.
4°. Title in red and black, woodcut Crusca device on title, repeated occasionally in the text, half-title. (Brown oilstain in lower fore-corners throughout, light browning and spotting.) Contemporary vellum (new endpapers). Provenance: George C. Harvey (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of Dati's biographies of Zeuxis of Heraclea, Parrhasius of Ephesus, Apelles of Colophon (Alexander the Great's favourite painter) and Protogenes of Caria. Praised by Cicognara for its excellent italian. BL 17th Century Italian I, p. 293; Cicognara 2252.
4°. Title in red and black, woodcut Crusca device on title, repeated occasionally in the text, half-title. (Brown oilstain in lower fore-corners throughout, light browning and spotting.) Contemporary vellum (new endpapers). Provenance: George C. Harvey (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of Dati's biographies of Zeuxis of Heraclea, Parrhasius of Ephesus, Apelles of Colophon (Alexander the Great's favourite painter) and Protogenes of Caria. Praised by Cicognara for its excellent italian. BL 17th Century Italian I, p. 293; Cicognara 2252.