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ROSSI, Domenico. Studio d'Architettura civile sopra gli ornamenti di porte e finestre tratti da alcune fabbriche insigni di Roma. Rome: Domenico Rossi, 1702-21.
3 volumes in 2, 2° (472 x 357mm). 3 engraved titles, engraved dedication to Pope Clement XI, 2pp. letterpress preface and index, 282 engraved plates, plans and elevations, 38 double-page or folding, wide margins. (Plate 95 in vol.I holed, plate 131 shaved with slight loss to engraved border, a few other plates just shaved into plate.) Contemporary English speckled calf gilt, spines in seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in one, the others with various small tools surrounding centrally-placed elephant crest, g.e. (upper joint of vol.I slightly split). Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine (binding).
A fine example of Rossi's work, this copy with plate 55 in the second volume (the plate lacking in the Berlin Kat. copy). Berlin Kat. 2681; cf. Brunet V. 1405. (2)
3 volumes in 2, 2° (472 x 357mm). 3 engraved titles, engraved dedication to Pope Clement XI, 2pp. letterpress preface and index, 282 engraved plates, plans and elevations, 38 double-page or folding, wide margins. (Plate 95 in vol.I holed, plate 131 shaved with slight loss to engraved border, a few other plates just shaved into plate.) Contemporary English speckled calf gilt, spines in seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in one, the others with various small tools surrounding centrally-placed elephant crest, g.e. (upper joint of vol.I slightly split). Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine (binding).
A fine example of Rossi's work, this copy with plate 55 in the second volume (the plate lacking in the Berlin Kat. copy). Berlin Kat. 2681; cf. Brunet V. 1405. (2)