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LUMISDEN, Andrew (1720-1801). Remarks on the antiquities of Rome and its environs. London: W. Bumer & Co. for G. Nicol, 1797.
4° (282 x 220mm). Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding engraved maps, 10 plates, 3 folding, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a hand-coloured aquatint title and 61 hand-coloured aquatint views of Rome by Merigot. (Occasional light spotting and browning, some oxidisation to coloured plates.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with original spine laid down).
FIRST EDITION, extra-illustrated with the complete suite of plates from James Merigot's A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome, 1799 or later [cf. Abbey Travel I, 178]. Olschki 17435; Schudt 774.
4° (282 x 220mm). Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding engraved maps, 10 plates, 3 folding, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a hand-coloured aquatint title and 61 hand-coloured aquatint views of Rome by Merigot. (Occasional light spotting and browning, some oxidisation to coloured plates.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with original spine laid down).
FIRST EDITION, extra-illustrated with the complete suite of plates from James Merigot's A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome, 1799 or later [cf. Abbey Travel I, 178]. Olschki 17435; Schudt 774.
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