Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music

Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music

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Titian and Paolo Veronese, Opera selectiora... [Venice], 1682, contemporary vellum

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December 3, 04:27 PM GMT

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2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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[TITIAN AND PAOLO VERONESE]

Opera selectiora quae Titianus Vecellius Cadubriensis, et Paulus Calliari Veronensis inventarunt, ac pinxerunt. [Venice?], 1682


folio (547 x 380mm.), engraved title-page (laid down), 50 engravings by Jacob van Campen after Valentin Lefevre (mostly full-page, a few double-page, some smaller) all cut out and laid down, sometimes with more than one to a leaf, plus one woodcut of Venus and Cupid (after Titian, by Nicolò Boldrini, dated 1566), contemporary vellum, extremities bumped, spine repaired; sold as a collection of plates not subject to return


A collection of engravings showing the work of Titian and Paolo Veronese, by the Brussels artist Valentin Lefevre, who worked in Venice in the second half of the seventeenth century.