[Rarebooks] FS: Cento Tavole del Codice Resta

[Isabel's Books]

For sale:
 
FONTES AMBROSIANI IN LVCEM EDITI CVRA ET STVDIO BIBLIOTHECAE AMBROSIANAE. XXIX. [CENTO TAVOLE DEL CODICE RESTA]. Milano, 1955. Large Folio (20x15 inches). Brown morocco spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, thick leather-covered boards with facsimile paper pasted over. Two oval ownership stamps on front free endpaper and title page. Some faint soiling to page edges. Light wear to upper edges of spine. Limited to 2,030 copies, of which this is number 473. Very Good. $1,000 postpaid.
 
A faithful facsimile, down to the scratches on the covers, of part of Padre Sebastiano Resta’s collection of drawings compiled in Resta Codices I and II and housed in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Resta was a major Settecento collector of Old Master drawings. Reproduced here are 225 pages of the Resta Codices, with 100 of these drawings by Leonardo, Raphael, Botticelli, Tintoretto, Bernini, and many others along with accompanying text. Resta entitled his codices the “Galleria Portatile” (Portable Gallery), and the book truly is like a museum. Some drawings are on hinges with text and further drawings behind, others are tipped in. Resta’s accompanying text includes annotations, genealogies, and bits and pieces of gossip about the artists. Tissue guards contain modern annotations in four languages. [10] pages with parallel introductory text in Italian, German, French, and English precede the facsimile pages. 
 
This is a solid book, weighing 22 pounds. 
 
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Michael

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