CELLINI, Benvenuto - Lot 51

CELLINI, Benvenuto Due trattati. Uno dell'oreficeria, l'altro della scultura Florence, Nella Stamperia di S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1731 EXEMPLAIRE IN EARLIER BINDINGS Second edition In-4 (218 x 165 mm) COLLATION: XXXII, 162 pp. 7 ff. the last including an erratum ITALIAN BINDING OF THE PERIOD. Soft parchment, smooth spine, title calligraphed in ink PROVENANCE: Dominique Courvoisier (bookplate) -- Paris, November 19, 2021, no. 72 These "two treatises" contain technical information on goldsmithing and sculpture, as well as details on some of the works of Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571). In 1728, Cellini's Vita was first published in Naples. BIBLIOGRAPHY : Brunet, I, col. 1725 -- Cicognara, 274