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AMICO (Bernardino).

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AMICO (Bernardino).

Trattato delle Piante & Immagini de Sacri Edifizi di Terra Santa. Florence, Pietro Cecconcelli, 1620. In-folio, full vellum, spine with coloured marbled edges (18th century binding).Fowler, n°19.-Meaume, vol. II, pp. 211-212.S
econd edition, decorated with an architectural title-frontispiece and 47 copper engravings by Jacques Callot after the author's drawings, numbered from 1 to 47 (except n°42 which does not exist) and printed on 34
double-page
plates
.

This kind of work has remained an exception in

Callot's work.

This beautiful work first appeared in Rome in 1609, with illustrations by Antonio

Tempesta.

Engraved ex-libris Girolamo

Durazzo. A

few stains, worm work reaching the tabs and the upper margin of a dozen plates biting into the engraving of 6

of them.