CAMPO (Antonio) - Lot 399

CAMPO (Antonio) Cremona fedelissima citta et nobilissima colonia de Romani rappresentata in disegno col suo contado et illustrata d'una breve historia delle cose piu notabili et dei ritratti narurali de duchi et duchesse di Milano Milano, Bidelli, 1645. (Followed by) GIOVIO (Paolo): Vite dei Dodeci Visconti che signoreggiarono milano con le vere effigie dessi principi dedicate all'illustriss. Et reverendiss. Monsignore Honorato Visconti arcivescovo di Larissa. Milano, Bidelli, 1645. 2 works in one volume in-4: 3f., 228pp., 12f. (9 portraits in medallions in the text, a fold-out map (Discrittioni dil contado territorio et diocesi di Cremona con suoi confini), a large fold-out map (Hanc urbis Cremonae speciem Antonius Campus pictor et eques cremonem an MDLXXXIII), 5 plates out of text (3 of which fold-out),- 32pp. (25 portraits, 24 of which in medallions, and one out of text)) - 10f.., 132pp. (15 plates including 14 out-of-text portraits and an engraved title). A total of 34 portraits and 7 plates, most of them folding (for the first work) and 15 plates hors texte (for the second). Contemporary glazed fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, headband frayed, small headband loss, rubbing, one jaw split, the other cracked at the entrances, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, crease on one board, corners dulled with small tears, marbled edges. Second edition, corrected and enlarged, of a famous work on the city of Cremona (published in 1582).