Tesauro, Emanuele. Utdrag af Grefvens och Riddarens... Lot 375

Tesauro, Emanuele. Utdrag af Grefvens och Riddarens Emanuelis Tesauri Historia om Göthernas och Longobardernas Regemenete uti Italien, jemförd mot andre Auctorer. Med Italianska Kopparstycken. Stockholm, Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1747. gr.-fol. Engraved frontispiece, 56 p., 3 folio-sized engraved plates, 2 engraved folded maps, 3 engraved titles (mounted on counted leaves) and 57 engraved portraits (instead of 58?; of which 2 mounted). Half leather binding with gilt-stamped spine label. (Covers rubbed, corners bumped, torn capitals). First Swedish translation by Jacob Röding of Emanuele Tesauro's "Del regno d'Italia sotto i barbari epitome", first published in Turin in 1663. Unusually, the Swedish edition prints the engravings made in Italy about a hundred years earlier; it must be that the Swedish publisher was able to buy the copper plates in Italy. According to the count of the plates, the portrait of Charles the Bald is missing in the third book (no. VI); this plate may have been lost, as the collation of the Swedish National Library's copy (according to the KVK) does not show this plate either! Some of the portraits are engraved after Hartmann Schedel's chronicle, others after Giacomo Strada. A large number of portraits are engraved after models from the "Museo del Marchese Belisoni in Padua". The two maps show an accurate map of Scandinavia (after Magnus' "Carta Marina") and "Il Contato di Canavese". The third portrait in the first book - "Ricimerus, Imperatorum Tyrannus" - is torn and backed with old paper strips. Otherwise a good, clean copy with wide margins. On the inside cover bookplate Ivar Morssing and below the lithographed bookplate "Säfstaholms Bibliothek". - Italian baroque portraits in a Swedish rococo book. - Extremely rare!