Lot 19
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FERRERIO, PIETRO and GIOVANNI BATTISTA FALDA. Palazzi di Roma; Nuovi Disegni dell'Architetture, e Piante dè Palazzi di Roma. Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, n.d. [ca. 1655-1670]. 2 parts in one vol., oblong folio, 363 x 470mm. (14 5/16 x 18 1/2 in.), later calf, worn, lacking plate 44 in part 1 and plate 27 in part 2, small adhesive stain to plate 3 in part 1, a few fore-edges frayed, very minor marginal worming, one wormhole within a platemark (pl. 3, part 2), marginal soiling, dampstaining to gutters in part 2. 103 (of 105) engraved plates: 2 engraved titles, 42 plates in part 1, and 59 plates in part 2, of plans, elevations and sections. Fowler 120; Berlin Katalog 2665.

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FERRERIO, PIETRO and GIOVANNI BATTISTA FALDA. Palazzi di Roma; Nuovi Disegni dell'Architetture, e Piante dè Palazzi di Roma. Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, n.d. [ca. 1655-1670]. 2 parts in one vol., oblong folio, 363 x 470mm. (14 5/16 x 18 1/2 in.), later calf, worn, lacking plate 44 in part 1 and plate 27 in part 2, small adhesive stain to plate 3 in part 1, a few fore-edges frayed, very minor marginal worming, one wormhole within a platemark (pl. 3, part 2), marginal soiling, dampstaining to gutters in part 2. 103 (of 105) engraved plates: 2 engraved titles, 42 plates in part 1, and 59 plates in part 2, of plans, elevations and sections. Fowler 120; Berlin Katalog 2665.

Early issue, with the plates unnumbered, but with "Libro Primo" and "Libro Secondo" on titles and both parts printd on the same watermarked paper. Part 1 contains 30 plates signed Pietro Ferrerio, one signed Giovanni Battista Falda, and 11 unsigned; part 2 has 43 plates signed by Falda and 16 unsigned.