Bibliotheca Brookeriana III: Art, architecture and illustrated books

Bibliotheca Brookeriana III: Art, architecture and illustrated books

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Campo, Cremona fedelissima citta, Cremona, 1585, later Italian red morocco gilt, Vershbow copy

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Campo, Antonio. Cremona fedelissima città, et nobilissima colonia de Romani rappresentata in disegno col suo contado, et illustrata d'una breve historia delle cose piu notabili appartenenti ad essa, et de i ritratti naturali de duchi, et duchesse di Milano, e compendio delle lor vite da Antonio Campo pittore e cavalier cremonese al potentissimo, e felicissimo re di Spagna Filippo II, d'Austria. Cremona: (Ercoliano Bartoli, & Ippolito Tromba for) Antonio Campo, 1585


First edition of Campo's history of Cremona, including numerous portraits engraved by Agostino Carracci, one of which was supposedly based on a lost Leonardo painting of Massimiliano Sforza (N4v) owned by Francesco Melzi of Milan.


Folio (408 x 262 mm). Roman type, 28 lines plus headline, each page within a woodcut frame. collation: +4 A-L4 *-10*4 M-S4 [2]+2: 117 leaves (of 118, with blank leaf 10*4, lacking final leaf). Engraved title-page, engraved portrait of Philip II on verso of title, engraved personification of Cremona on +2v, engraved portrait of the author on +3r, woodcut initials, engraved and woodcut illustrations (that on O4v a replacement with white ink masking the edges of the previous engraving), folding engraved map of Cremona by David da Lodi dated 1582, double-page engraved plate of the Duomo with engravings on versos, double-page map of the Cremonese territory by David da Lodi dated 1583, woodcut device of the author above colophon. (Lacking final leaf [2]+2 with errata, occasional light foxing or staining.)


binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco gilt (418 x 280 mm), new spine retaining most of an earlier gilt spine (though not matching the cover decoration), edges marbled and gilt. Restored by J. Macdonald Co., Norwalk, Conn., stamp on verso of flyleaf. (Corners and lower edge of boards somewhat worn.)


provenance: [George Staack, purchased in 1962 by] — Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, bookplate, sale, Christie's New York, 20 June 2013, lot 453. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: Edit16 8843; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 100

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