Gems] - AGOSTINI, Leonardo - Le gemme antiche figurate (...). Parte prima (- seconda) [2nd ed. “secodna [!] impressione”]. Rome, G.B. Bussotti, 1686, 2 vol., 4to, cont. vellum (sl. soiled, sm. def. front cover II repaired), flat spines with gilt labels (label I sl. def.), marbl. edges, 51-[1], [4]-76 pp. (usual toning and spotting, a few sm. stains, tiny wormholes in final ff. vol. II). Very good large paper copy.
2nd ed. (1st 1657-1669) of the major work of the Italian antiquary L. Agostini (1593-1669), devoted to antique engraved gems (vol. I) and cameos (vol. II) in the collection of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, which Agostini had assembled for the papal nephew. He was later appointed by Pope Alexander VII superintendent of antiquities in the Roman states. Engr. ills : title of the original ed. (1657), oval portrait of Agostini, 266 numbered pls c. 12,7 x 10 cm (115, 151) by J.-B. Galestruzzi . Ref. Sinkankas, Gemology I 29. Rhodes (BL) 9. Not in Cicognara.
Gems] - AGOSTINI, Leonardo - Le gemme antiche figurate (...). Parte prima (- seconda) [2nd ed. “secodna [!] impressione”]. Rome, G.B. Bussotti, 1686, 2 vol., 4to, cont. vellum (sl. soiled, sm. def. front cover II repaired), flat spines with gilt labels (label I sl. def.), marbl. edges, 51-[1], [4]-76 pp. (usual toning and spotting, a few sm. stains, tiny wormholes in final ff. vol. II). Very good large paper copy.
2nd ed. (1st 1657-1669) of the major work of the Italian antiquary L. Agostini (1593-1669), devoted to antique engraved gems (vol. I) and cameos (vol. II) in the collection of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, which Agostini had assembled for the papal nephew. He was later appointed by Pope Alexander VII superintendent of antiquities in the Roman states. Engr. ills : title of the original ed. (1657), oval portrait of Agostini, 266 numbered pls c. 12,7 x 10 cm (115, 151) by J.-B. Galestruzzi . Ref. Sinkankas, Gemology I 29. Rhodes (BL) 9. Not in Cicognara.
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