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BOSCHINI, Marco. La carta del navegar pitoresco. Dialogo tra vn senator venetian...e vn professor de pitura... . Venice: Baba, 1660. 4°. Engraved frontispiece, portrait and 25 full-page illustrations in the text, half-title. (Some worming in the lower inner margins from Aa4 to Rr2 affects a few catchwords slightly, unimportant flaw in the fore-margin of M4, quire Yyy browned.) Early 19th-century calf-backed sprinkled boards, gilt ornament in panels of flat spine (a trifle rubbed). Provenance . Girolamo Caratti of Udine (signature on an endpaper). FIRST EDITION of a fascinating poem in Venetian dialect in twenty-eight cantos or "winds" written by one of the most eminent art-critics of his day. The frontispiece and engravings which illustrate works by contemporary artists -- Van Dyke and Poussin, among others -- are his work. Cicognara 976 "Operetta interessantissima".