MITELLI, Giuseppe Maria (1634-1718). Alfabeto in sogno. Esemplare per disegnare . [Bologna: no printer], 1683 [but later]. First edition, extremely rare in its completeness, of a masterpiece of Italian Baroque, an anthropomorphic alphabet showing a series of capital letters through ingeniously contorted male and female figures, each letter surrounded by specimens for heads, bones, eyes, noses and others anatomical elements. The engravings are accompanied by a verse cartouche. Bonacini 1196 'This is Mitelli’s masterpiece'; Brunet III, 1778 (with the erroneous date 1675); Cicognara 1718; Berlin Kat. 5289. Folio (365 x 248mm to 403 x 277mm). 25 leaves comprising engraved pictorial title, dedication leaf, and 23 engraved plates (some staining and spotting, particularly to the dedication leaf, two closed tears with no loss, repaired). 19th-century patterned-paper boards (rubbed, extremities a little worn).
MITELLI, Giuseppe Maria (1634-1718). Alfabeto in sogno. Esemplare per disegnare . [Bologna: no printer], 1683 [but later]. First edition, extremely rare in its completeness, of a masterpiece of Italian Baroque, an anthropomorphic alphabet showing a series of capital letters through ingeniously contorted male and female figures, each letter surrounded by specimens for heads, bones, eyes, noses and others anatomical elements. The engravings are accompanied by a verse cartouche. Bonacini 1196 'This is Mitelli’s masterpiece'; Brunet III, 1778 (with the erroneous date 1675); Cicognara 1718; Berlin Kat. 5289. Folio (365 x 248mm to 403 x 277mm). 25 leaves comprising engraved pictorial title, dedication leaf, and 23 engraved plates (some staining and spotting, particularly to the dedication leaf, two closed tears with no loss, repaired). 19th-century patterned-paper boards (rubbed, extremities a little worn).
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