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GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico (1521--1589)
[Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi. English. Selections]
Guicciardini's account of the ancient Flemish school of painting. Translated from his description of the Netherlands, published in Italian at Antwerp, 1567. With a preface, by the translator.
London (Place), printed for I. Herbert,, 1795.
xv, [1], 36 p. ; 18.6 cm. (8°)

A translation of selections from Guicciardini's Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi; an English abridgment had appeared in 1593 as The description of the Low countreys and of the prouinces thereof. ESTC t105209.

Copy Notes Imperfect; wanting half-title. Bound in a collection of tracts on the fine arts.

Binding C19th quarter maroon binder's cloth, grey paper boards, green leather spine-label lettered in gilt 'Tracts / Fine Arts', numbered '37' in a series of pamphlet volumes.

Reference Number 4145


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