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CAMPO, ANTONIO (D. CIRCA 1591). CREMONA FEDELISSIMA CITTA, ET NOBILISSIMA COLONIA DE ROMANI . CREMONA: HIPPOLITTO TROMBA & HERCOLIANO BARTOLI FOR THE AUTHOR, 1585. LARGE 2° (402 X 260MM). WOODCUT HISTORIATED INITIALS AND ORNAMENTAL BORDERS THROUGHOUT, ENGRAVED TITLE WITH PORTRAIT OF PHILIP II OF SPAIN ON VERSO, FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATION OF CREMONA PERSONIFIED, ILLUSTRATION OF THE CARROCCIO OF CREMONA, TWO DOUBLE-PAGE PLANS OF CREMONA, ONE FOLDING, FOLDING PLATE OF CREMONA CATHEDRAL WITH FOUR OF THE TOWER AND BAPISTRY PRINTED ON THE VERSO, 34 MEDALLION PORTRAITS IN THE TEXT (33 ENGRAVED, 1 WOODCUT) MANY BY AGOSTINO CARRACCI (SMALL REPAIRS TO THE FOLDING PLAN.) 19TH-CENTURY BINDING INCORPORATING 16TH-CENTURY ITALIAN CALF COVERS, IN GILT AND BLIND, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, GILT EDGES (WORN). PROVENANCE : SENOR MARQUES DE ASTORGA (PRINTED BOOKLABEL AT FOOT OF DEDICATION PAGE); AMBROISE FIRMIN DIDOT (1850 BOOKPLATE). FIRST EDITION of this important history of Cremona. The portraits are principally of the Dukes of Cremona and the Dukes and Duchesses of Milan, and many of the accompanying letterpress descriptions include a note as to the source of the image, including (N4 r ) a now lost portrait of Massimiliano of Milan by Leonardo da Vinci then 'in casa di Francesco Melcio gentil'huomo Milanese'. The present copy has the corrected states of the city map and the address to the Consiglieri, and an imperfectly masked re-print of the portrait of Philip II on O4 v . The engravings by Carracci include the chariot and the portraits taken from models in Paolo Giovio's museum (Bohlin, Prints and Drawings by the Carracci family , 1979, nos. 56-92). Adams C-489; Cicognara 3977; Mortimer Harvard Italian 100.