Accession number:
PML 76341.1
Published:
In Vinetia : Per Cornelio de Nicolini da Sabbio a instantia de Marchio Sessa, [1551?]
Description:
2 v. in 1 (16, 31, [1] leaves) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Credit:
Gift of Paul Mellon, 1979.
Notes:
1st Italian ed.
Book 2 has caption title only: Il secondo libro di perspettiva.
Imprint from colophon; date estimated.
According to Brunet this undated ed. may have antedated the 1545 French ed., but recent scholars (e.g., Dinsmoor) have accepted 1551 as the date of issue. Cf. Fowler.
Signatures: v.1: A-D⁴; v. 2: A-H⁴.
Mellon no.: L69.3595.
Binding:
Limp vellum, in red cloth case.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Collegio di Sal ... ro in Milano (stamp), Jos. Diego Caniell ... (?), Paul Mellon (bookplate).
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