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Brescia, Domenico Gromi, 1693. Allegorical frontispiece and portrait of the author engraved in copper by Isabella Piccini, one folded woodcut plate and one double-page plate, numerous engraved figures in the text, a repaired gap in the lower corner of the title page, some light foxing and marginal browning, contemporary hard parchment binding, gilt title within a tag on the spine, minor defects. Paper bookplate on the pastedown by Cesare Saluzzo, ownership stamp on the flyleaf and pastedown: "Giovanni Barba Bedizzole."
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A valuable work, now in its second edition, dedicated to the origins and earliest history of Brescia, of singular importance for its wealth of information on ancient artifacts, civil and religious events, as well as the city's art and architecture. The engravings are by Elisabetta Piccini (Venice, 1644-1734), known as Sister Isabella, who was among the finest engravers of seventeenth-century Venice. A student of her father Giacomo, she produced elegant frontispieces, frontispieces, and sacred and allegorical subjects, works sought after by publishers and collectors in Italy and abroad.
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