Hoe copy.- Iconography.- Giarda (Cristoforo) Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ … elogiis
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Hoe copy.- Iconography.- Giarda (Cristoforo) Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ … elogiis illustratæ, engraved architectural title with Saints Peter and Alexander by Cesare Bassano, 16 engraved plates of female figures, title and preliminaries stained, occasional spotting or light soiling, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, red crushed morocco, gilt, by R. Petit (signed at foot of inner front cover), rebacked, preserving original richly gilt backstrip in compartments, a few small light ink stains to covers, rubbed, [Landwehr Romanic 320; Praz p.349], 4to, [Milan], Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1628. *** The Robert Hoe-John Barrymore copy of this collection of 16 figures representing the arts & sciences, after paintings in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina; the library of the Collegio San Alessandro in Milan. Provenance: Robert Hoe (blue morocco book label); The Lamberts (bookplate), gifted by them to John Barrymore (bookplate).
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Hoe copy.- Iconography.- Giarda (Cristoforo) Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ … elogiis
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