May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 308

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BARRI, GIACOMO. The Painters Voyage of Italy. In which All the Famous Paintings of the Most Eminent Masters are particularised, as they are preserved in the Several Cities of Italy. Etched allegorical frontispiece and 5 portraits of artists; engraved map of Italy. [16], 159, [1] pages, including initial leaf of binder's directions and license leaf. 8vo, remboîtage of later 18th-century tree calf covers shortened to size, rebacked, endpapers renewed; contents toned, upper margins trimmed entering some headlines, light soiling and minor stains on title, large ink blot on page 117 offsetting onto facing plate, light marginal dampstaining toward end. London: Tho. Flesher, 1679

Additional Details

first edition in english of the author's 1671 Viaggio Pittoresco d'Italia. Pine-Coffin 671; Wing B916.