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BISESTI, Augustine. Coats of Arms of the Noble Families of Verona faithfully extracted from the original manuscript Work in two volumes and a folio fascicle by Carlo Carinelli Cittadino Romano e Canonico Veronese entitled "La verità nel suo centro riconosciuta nelle famiglie nobili e cittadine di Verona" drawn by Agostino Bisesti. Verona, August 30, 1856 Folio. 310x215 mm. Modern amateur binding, half leather and marbled hardback, corners, gilt title on spine. Title page with title and two coats of arms, 296 colored coats of arms with family names. Within frames, six per page. Very good copy. Wonderful volume in coeval coloring. Copy of the coats of arms that appear in the manuscript by 17th-century scholar Carlo Carinelli, mentioned in the title. This manuscript is in the Biblioteca Civica di Verona.A. Bisesti, son of the Veronese printer-librarian and publisher Pietro who in 1827 published a well-known guide to Verona, accompanying it with a plan of the city dated 1822, probably by his son Agostino. Also from these is an 1831 watercolor drawing of Verona preserved in the Verona Municipal Library. Both are traced to Persico's, and contemporary with the plans of Ronzani, Rothenburg, Bennassuti and Malacarne. Still in the Municipal Library of Verona are other of his drawings, copies of details from Frambotto's map. Many of his engravings were published to accompany Giuseppe Venturi's compendium of Veronese history (1825) and the guide to the Museo Lapidario scaligero (1827) by the same abbot, works that also came out of the presses of Pietro.C. Carinelli, La verità nel suo centro riconosciuta nelle famiglie nobili e cittadine di Verona, I 113 (ms. at the Bibl. Comunale di Verona).On Agostino Bisesti, see Giuliana Baso, Francesca Rizzi and Vladimiro Valerio, in: https://www.digitaldisci.it/bisesti-agostino. Folio. 310x215 mm. Modern custom binding, quarter calf and marbled cardboard, corners, gilt title on spine. Titlepage with two coat of arms, 296 coat of arms with families' names within frame, six for page. Nice work. Splendid volume in contemporary coloring. Copy of the coats of arms that appear in the manuscript of the seventeenth-century scholar Carlo Carinelli, quoted in the title. This manuscript is found in the Civic Library of Verona.A. Bisesti, son of the Veronese typographer-bookseller and publisher Pietro who in 1827 published a well-known guide to Verona accompanied by a map of the city dated 1822, probably by his son Agostino. Of these is also a watercolor drawing of Verona from 1831 preserved in the Municipal Library of Verona. They are both modeled on that of Persico, and contemporary with the plans of Ronzani, Rothenburg, Bennassuti and Malacarne. Still in the Municipal Library of Verona other drawings by him are preserved, copies of details of Frambotto's paper. Many of his engravings were published together with the Veronese historical compendium by Giuseppe Venturi (1825) and the guide to the Scaligero Lapidary Museum (1827) by the same abbot, works also released from the presses of Pietro.

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BISESTI, Augustine. Coats of Arms of the Noble Families of Verona faithfully extracted from the original manuscript Work in two volumes and a folio fascicle by Carlo Carinelli Cittadino Romano e Canonico Veronese entitled "La verità nel suo centro riconosciuta nelle famiglie nobili e cittadine di Verona" drawn by Agostino Bisesti. Verona, August 30, 1856 Folio. 310x215 mm. Modern amateur binding, half leather and marbled hardback, corners, gilt title on spine. Title page with title and two coats of arms, 296 colored coats of arms with family names. Within frames, six per page. Very good copy. Wonderful volume in coeval coloring. Copy of the coats of arms that appear in the manuscript by 17th-century scholar Carlo Carinelli, mentioned in the title. This manuscript is in the Biblioteca Civica di Verona.A. Bisesti, son of the Veronese printer-librarian and publisher Pietro who in 1827 published a well-known guide to Verona, accompanying it with a plan of the city dated 1822, probably by his son Agostino. Also from these is an 1831 watercolor drawing of Verona preserved in the Verona Municipal Library. Both are traced to Persico's, and contemporary with the plans of Ronzani, Rothenburg, Bennassuti and Malacarne. Still in the Municipal Library of Verona are other of his drawings, copies of details from Frambotto's map. Many of his engravings were published to accompany Giuseppe Venturi's compendium of Veronese history (1825) and the guide to the Museo Lapidario scaligero (1827) by the same abbot, works that also came out of the presses of Pietro.C. Carinelli, La verità nel suo centro riconosciuta nelle famiglie nobili e cittadine di Verona, I 113 (ms. at the Bibl. Comunale di Verona).On Agostino Bisesti, see Giuliana Baso, Francesca Rizzi and Vladimiro Valerio, in: https://www.digitaldisci.it/bisesti-agostino. Folio. 310x215 mm. Modern custom binding, quarter calf and marbled cardboard, corners, gilt title on spine. Titlepage with two coat of arms, 296 coat of arms with families' names within frame, six for page. Nice work. Splendid volume in contemporary coloring. Copy of the coats of arms that appear in the manuscript of the seventeenth-century scholar Carlo Carinelli, quoted in the title. This manuscript is found in the Civic Library of Verona.A. Bisesti, son of the Veronese typographer-bookseller and publisher Pietro who in 1827 published a well-known guide to Verona accompanied by a map of the city dated 1822, probably by his son Agostino. Of these is also a watercolor drawing of Verona from 1831 preserved in the Municipal Library of Verona. They are both modeled on that of Persico, and contemporary with the plans of Ronzani, Rothenburg, Bennassuti and Malacarne. Still in the Municipal Library of Verona other drawings by him are preserved, copies of details of Frambotto's paper. Many of his engravings were published together with the Veronese historical compendium by Giuseppe Venturi (1825) and the guide to the Scaligero Lapidary Museum (1827) by the same abbot, works also released from the presses of Pietro.

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