SUITE GRAVÉE DU XVIe siècle. - Lot 112

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SUITE GRAVÉE DU XVIe siècle. - Lot 112
SUITE GRAVÉE DU XVIe siècle. ESTAÇO, Aquiles or Achille STATIUS. LAFRERI or LAFRERY. Inlustrium viror vt extant in vrbe expressi vultus. Romae, formis A. Lafreri, 1569. Small folio, engraved title, LII plates. Contemporary ivory vellum, smooth spine, speckled edges (spotting and soiling to binding and inner spine on a few quires, upper hinge split, 3 preliminary leaves missing). Very fine suite entirely engraved in etching. The Portuguese humanist Aquiles Estaço (Achille Stazio) (1524-1581), secretary to Pope Pius V and to the Council of Trent, was responsible for one of the first collections devoted to ancient iconography. Complete with 52 plates of marble bust portraits of Greeks and Romans, depicted against a neutral, shaded background, with text and autographed names of each bust engraved in the plate, numbered in Roman numerals at lower right. Although unsigned, the work is sometimes attributed to the engraver Agostino Musi, known as Agostino Veneziano or Veneto (ca. 1490- after 1536). Beautifully engraved porticoed title-frontispiece. The preface is by Aquiles Estaço, but here only the atlas is bound, without the text. Only 2 entries in CCFr (BnF and Nice). Cicognara, 2120.
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