Description:
Palma, Giacomo (1544-1628) Regole per Imprar a Disegnar. Venice: Appresso Marco Sadeler, 1636. Small folio, engraved throughout, title, followed by eight plates signed by Giacomo Franco in the plate; Libro Secondo, with title and twelve plates also signed by Franco; followed by an additional fifty-two plates, approximately thirty signed P.S.F., likely by Lucas de Urbino, i.e., Luca Ciamberlano (c. 1580-c. 1641),two signed in the plate by Ciamberlano; the work is certainly an assemblage of plates created to teach drawing from other books, full leather, worn, faults to contents including spots, stains, tears, folds, bound in reversed leather, ledger-style, 12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.
Estimate $400-600
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John Dorfman
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