DESEGNI DIVERSI INTENTATI E DELINEATI DE GIOVANNI DIARDINI DA FORLI
by GIARDINI, Giovanni
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About This Item
GIARDINI, Giovanni. DESEGNI DIVERSI INTENTATI E DELINEATI DE GIOVANNI DIARDI DA FORLI. Two parts bound as one. (Rome): 1714. Folio. Calf spine, contemporary marbled boards. Engraved title and dedication, 53 engraved plates; engraved title and dedication, 46 plates numbered 54-99. First edition, first issue? A gorgeous rococo pattern book for goldsmiths and silversmiths with both secu and ecclesiastical designs. The author, Giovanni Giardini (1646-1721), was appointed the Vatican's chief metalworker in 1698. His designs are reminisce of Bernini's. This design book is the most complete record of Giardini's wor as many pieces from the Papal collection were melted down by Napoleon's troop Rare. Only one copy is cited by NUC, that at the New York Public Library. T Berlin Catalogue [1141] calls for one hundred numbered plates as does the cop offered in Robin Halwas' Catalogue 4, but their copies have engraved plate numbers while our copy was numbered by hand, indicating an earlier state of t work. There is no indication a Plate 100 was ever bound-in this copy. Sympathetically rebacked, the first title leaf was trimmed and remounted in t distant past; some minor marginal foxing, but generally a very nice, fresh co of an important and rare work. 32487.
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- Bookseller
- The Bookpress, Ltd. (US)
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- 32487
- Title
- DESEGNI DIVERSI INTENTATI E DELINEATI DE GIOVANNI DIARDINI DA FORLI
- Author
- GIARDINI, Giovanni
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
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- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AA, AR EU
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- New
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- Calf
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