[Rarebooks] FS: Rare 1st English trans. of Orlandi's work on painters. London: 1730
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(ART) Orlandi, Pellegrini Antonio. REPERTORIUM SCULPTILE-TYPICUM: Or a
Complete Collection and Explanation of the Several Works and Cyphers by Which the
Prints of the Best Engravers Are Distinguished... London: S. G. for Sam.
Harding. 1730. 70pp. plus a large folding broadside, at back titled, “An historical
and chronological list of the painters.” With numerous woodcut monograms and
ciphers. Rebound in plain half calf and marbled boards. $475.00 (trade
discount allowed)
The rare first English translation of the author’s “Abcedario Pittorico.”
See Arntzen and Rainwater, GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF ART HISTORY, H110.
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