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SOPRANI, Raffaelo and Carlo Giuseppe RATTI. Vite de'pittori, scultori, ed architetti genovesi. Genoa: stamperia Casmara, 1768-69.
4°, 2 parts. Engraved title-vignettes, additional engraved title and frontispiece in volume I and 68 engraved portraits in the text. (Very light spotting towards the end of vol. II.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine (a trifle rubbed).
Second edition - the first appeared in 1674 - with the first volume by Soprani and the second by Ratti. The first volume is prefaced by a life of the author, with portrait, by G. N. Cavanna. Cicognara 2372.
4°, 2 parts. Engraved title-vignettes, additional engraved title and frontispiece in volume I and 68 engraved portraits in the text. (Very light spotting towards the end of vol. II.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine (a trifle rubbed).
Second edition - the first appeared in 1674 - with the first volume by Soprani and the second by Ratti. The first volume is prefaced by a life of the author, with portrait, by G. N. Cavanna. Cicognara 2372.