Doni, Anton Francesco Disegno, partito in più... Lot 272

Doni, Anton Francesco Disegno, partito in più ragionamenti, ne si tratta della scoltura et pittura. - Doni, Anton Francesco. Disegno, partito in più ragionamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura et pittura. Venice, Giolito de Ferrari, 1549. In 8° (144 x 94 mm); 64 papers. Typographic mark to title page and end of volume (slightly short, stain to lower white margin) Seventeenth-century vellum binding with gold title within cartouche on spine, marbled edges. First edition of this work of art theory divided into six dialogues. The volume, which inaugurated the long collaboration between the author and Giolito, also constitutes today an irreplaceable artistic guide to numerous private art collections, now dispersed, and a timely review of some minor arts, previously neglected because they were judged vile, such as the goldsmith's art.