Lot 2017
Vasari, Giorgio. Le Vite de'piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori, volumes 1 and 2, and volume 3, second part only, together 2 volumes, second edition, medallion wood-engraved portraits by Christoforo Coriolano after Vasari, with one of six variations of wood-engraved borders, woodcut initials, last line of vol.1 K4v stamped in, ms corrections on vol.3 5Y3, printed cancel slip on 3R4r, rustmark on vol. 3 5B2, affecting adjacent leaves, vol.3 with fore-edge of 3B2-3R2 laid-down on every fourth leaf, vol.3 with final blank 6H4, 2 woodcut titles, slightly shaved and soiled, seventeenth century full morocco, with the mitred cypher of an ?Archbishop tooled centre, rubbed, joints cracked, all edges gilt, 4to, Florence: Giunta, 1568
