Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Le pompe di Minerva per le nobili, e virtvose donne, che con industriosa mano di trattener si dilettano, in far Rezze, Maglia quadra, Punti in aria, Punti tagliati, Punti à Reticello, cosi per Fregio, come per Merletti, e Rosette di varie sorti : si come oggidi con l'Ago usa di lau or arsi per tutta Europa. Arricchite di bellissimi, e vaghi Intagli, cauati da i più celebri Autori, di tal Professione. Dedicati, all'Illustrissima Signora Caterina Geraldini ne' Cellesi.

Accession number
PML 37972
Published
In Pistoia : per Pier'Antonio Fortunati, [1642] (likely 18th-century reprint)
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, 1944.
Notes
Dedicatory epistle (leaf 2) to Caterina Geraldini ne Cellesi, dated Pistoia, 20 August 1642, signed Pier Antonio Fortunati.
Signatures: [*²]; A-F¹²; the last blank. Quires signed on every-other leaf, i.e. A1 signed on leaf 3, A2 signed on leaf 5, A3 signed on leaf 7, etc.
Printed only on one side (recto) of each leaf.
Printed from damaged woodblocks, showing significant signs of worm damage.
Not in USTC.
Description
[74] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts, 71 plates) ; 13 cm (oblong 8vo)
Provenance
Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., Rough List, no. 158 (April 1896), no. 480; unidentified American sale catalogue, no. 123 (description glued-in, front pastedown); from the collections of Jane Norton Grew Morgan (Mrs. J. P. Morgan, Jr.) and her daughter, Mrs. George Nichols.
Binding
18th/early 19th-century diced brown leather, gilt tooled, over paper boards; gilt edges.
Classification
Department