Istoria delle pitture in majolica fatte in pesaro e ne' luoghi circonvicini.
Pesaro.
Tipografia di Annesio Nobili, 1857.
Second edition.
8vo.
xx, 215pp, [1]. With three engraved plates (two folding). Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting brown morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford to FEP, scattered spotting.
The second posthumous edition, revised and expanded from the 1838 first, of Giovanni Battista Passeri's (1694-1780) treatise on Italian Majolica paintings; first published at Venice in 1758.
From the recently dispersed library of Howth Castle, County Dublin, seat of the Gaisford-St Lawrence family, of which notable members include Thomas Gaisford (1789-1855), English classical scholar, sometime curator of the Bodleian Library, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church.
£ 200.00
Antiquates Ref: 25078
From the recently dispersed library of Howth Castle, County Dublin, seat of the Gaisford-St Lawrence family, of which notable members include Thomas Gaisford (1789-1855), English classical scholar, sometime curator of the Bodleian Library, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church.
