Rossi (Giovanni Battista) Vita et miracula Seraphici Patris Sancti Francisci, fine engraved plates, 1639.
Rossi (Giovanni Battista de), Publisher. Vita et miracula Seraphici Patris Sancti Francisci, fine engraved pictorial title and 39 engraved plates, sheet 232 x 170mm., partial outlining to title in ink, some foxing, a few small stains, lightly browned, 19th century half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, small 4to, Rome, Apud Io. Baptistam de Rubeis, 1639.
? Scarce. The plates were possibly engraved by Philippe Thomassin (1562-1622) or an engraver in his circle. Thomassin's stock of circa 250 engraved plates ultimately ended up with the Rossi publishing house (see: Consagra, F., The De' Rossi Family Print Publishing Shop: A Study in the History of the Print Industry in Sixteenth-Century Rome, Baltimore, MD, 1993, Appendix 3, passim.]
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Rossi (Giovanni Battista de), Publisher. Vita et miracula Seraphici Patris Sancti Francisci, fine engraved pictorial title and 39 engraved plates, sheet 232 x 170mm., partial outlining to title in ink, some foxing, a few small stains, lightly browned, 19th century half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, small 4to, Rome, Apud Io. Baptistam de Rubeis, 1639.
? Scarce. The plates were possibly engraved by Philippe Thomassin (1562-1622) or an engraver in his circle. Thomassin's stock of circa 250 engraved plates ultimately ended up with the Rossi publishing house (see: Consagra, F., The De' Rossi Family Print Publishing Shop: A Study in the History of the Print Industry in Sixteenth-Century Rome, Baltimore, MD, 1993, Appendix 3, passim.]
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