PALOMINO DE CASTRO Y VELASCO, Antonio (1655-1726). Las vidas de los pintores y estatuarios eminentes españoles . London: Henrique Woodfall, 1744. 8° (198 x 125mm). Title printed in red and black. (Without final blank, title and second leaf with marginal repair just touching two letters on title). Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1940, gilt supralibros, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance : purchased from Antonio Creus, 1939.
PALOMINO DE CASTRO Y VELASCO, Antonio (1655-1726). Las vidas de los pintores y estatuarios eminentes españoles . London: Henrique Woodfall, 1744. 8° (198 x 125mm). Title printed in red and black. (Without final blank, title and second leaf with marginal repair just touching two letters on title). Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1940, gilt supralibros, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance : purchased from Antonio Creus, 1939. Second edition. The best known work by Palomino de Castro is El museo pictorico y escala optica , first printed in Madrid in 1715 (see next lot for the second edition). It was through that work and those that followed, including the present Vidas de los pintores , that Palomino became known as the 'Spanish Vasari'. Palau XII, 210729.
PALOMINO DE CASTRO Y VELASCO, Antonio (1655-1726). Las vidas de los pintores y estatuarios eminentes españoles . London: Henrique Woodfall, 1744. 8° (198 x 125mm). Title printed in red and black. (Without final blank, title and second leaf with marginal repair just touching two letters on title). Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1940, gilt supralibros, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance : purchased from Antonio Creus, 1939.
PALOMINO DE CASTRO Y VELASCO, Antonio (1655-1726). Las vidas de los pintores y estatuarios eminentes españoles . London: Henrique Woodfall, 1744. 8° (198 x 125mm). Title printed in red and black. (Without final blank, title and second leaf with marginal repair just touching two letters on title). Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1940, gilt supralibros, gilt spine-lettering, turn-ins and edges. Provenance : purchased from Antonio Creus, 1939. Second edition. The best known work by Palomino de Castro is El museo pictorico y escala optica , first printed in Madrid in 1715 (see next lot for the second edition). It was through that work and those that followed, including the present Vidas de los pintores , that Palomino became known as the 'Spanish Vasari'. Palau XII, 210729.
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