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Lot 281
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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AMICO, Bernardino (1576-1920). Trattato delle piante & immagini de sacri edifizi di Terra Santa disegnate in Jerusaleme Florence: Piettro Cecconcelli, 1620 [colophon dated 1619].
Small folio (280 x 215 mm). Engraved title, 34 double-page engraved plates showing 46 plans and views by Jacques Callot, mounted on stubs. (Some occasional soiling.) Later half calf gilt, marbled boards (upper joint starting).
Second edition, the first to include plates engraved by Jacques Callot (1592-1635), who was commissioned by Cosimo Il de Medici. In 1596, Bernardino Amico was appointed prior of the Franciscan order at Jerusalem, where he stayed for five years. Atabey 20; Berlin Kat. 2782; Blackmer 31; Fowler 19.