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SOPRANI, Rafaele. Le vite de pittori scoltori, et architetti genovesi. E de' forastieri, che in Genova operarono con alcuni ritratti de gli stessi. Opera postuma ... aggiontaui la vita dell'autore per opera di Gio. Nicolo Cavana. Genoa: Giuseppe Bottaro and Gio. Battista Tiboldi, 1674.
4°. Engraved frontispiece by G. Tasniere after D. Piola, title printed in red and black, 20 engraved portraits, engraved initials. (A few paper flaws in title, 2 with laminated repairs on verso, hole in dedication and G2 with loss of ca. 4 letters, letters supplied in manuscript on G2, the last 4 lines of Tt1r and Tt4v badly impressed rendering the text illegible, a few misprints throughout, a few gatherings browned.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.
FIRST EDITION. BL 17th-Century Italian II, p. 858 (misdated 1647); Cicognara 2371 "Edizione prima e non comune".
4°. Engraved frontispiece by G. Tasniere after D. Piola, title printed in red and black, 20 engraved portraits, engraved initials. (A few paper flaws in title, 2 with laminated repairs on verso, hole in dedication and G2 with loss of ca. 4 letters, letters supplied in manuscript on G2, the last 4 lines of Tt1
FIRST EDITION. BL 17th-Century Italian II, p. 858 (misdated 1647); Cicognara 2371 "Edizione prima e non comune".