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(BOOKBINDING.) Album of 20 pen-and-ink portraits on laid paper after illustrations to Aliprando Capriolo's 1596 Ritratti di Cento Capitani Illustri, approximately 185x143 mm each, tipped to larger sheets of wove paper. Small folio, cased in 18th-century Italian (Neapolitan?) brown calf lavishly gilt-tooled to panel design of concentric ornamental borders surrounding cartouche with center lozenge of floral tools, partly accentuated with silver paint, rebacked retaining original backstrip; light to moderate foxing on portraits. Italy, 18th century?
