RUBENS, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Palazzi di Genova . [Antwerp: n.p., 1622]. Volume I only, 2° (435 x 335mm). Half title, 72 engraved plates and plans by Peter Paul Rubens (lacking title, a few upper margins shaved, some lower foredge corners frayed with minor losses, occasional light spotting and thumb-marks). 18th-century calf (rubbed and scuffed with loss). Provenance : Francis Price, 1728 (ink inscription); bookplate with motto "Tuum-est". FIRST EDITION. The above volume "was reissued with part II, probably in the same year ... most authorities agree that the second series of plates was not the work of Rubens" (Fowler, 225). Berlin kat. 2657; Brunet IV, 1442.
RUBENS, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Palazzi di Genova . [Antwerp: n.p., 1622]. Volume I only, 2° (435 x 335mm). Half title, 72 engraved plates and plans by Peter Paul Rubens (lacking title, a few upper margins shaved, some lower foredge corners frayed with minor losses, occasional light spotting and thumb-marks). 18th-century calf (rubbed and scuffed with loss). Provenance : Francis Price, 1728 (ink inscription); bookplate with motto "Tuum-est". FIRST EDITION. The above volume "was reissued with part II, probably in the same year ... most authorities agree that the second series of plates was not the work of Rubens" (Fowler, 225). Berlin kat. 2657; Brunet IV, 1442.
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