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ROSSI, Domenico (publisher.). MAFFEI, Paola Alessandro. Raccolta di statue antiche e moderne. Rome: Antonio de' Rossi, 1742.
Folio (481 x 372mm). Letterpress half-title, engraved title from the 1704 edition, engraved dedication, and 163 plates of statues by C. Randon, N. Corigny, R.V. Auden Aerd, F. Andriot, G.B. de Poilly, and G.G. Frezza, engraved head- and tailpieces by F. Aquila, engraved initial, woodcut initials. Text bound before engraved title and plates. (Some light browning.) 19th-century half polished calf (slightly rubbed).
CAMPIGLIA, Giovannni Domenico (1692-after 1775). [Statue. Rome: c.1740s]. 100 engraved plates of statues by C. Mogalli, C. Gregori, G.B. Jacoboni, G. Guttieriez, V. Franceschini, G.M. Preissler, C. Orsolini, G.G. Frezza, M. Pitteri, M. Sorvello and others after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. -- PIROLI, Tommaso. [Niobes historia Graecae sculpturae miraculum. N.p.: n.d.]. Engraved dedication and 7 (of 15?) plates by Piroli, one leaf of letterpress text. Uniformly bound with the above volume as Sposizioni sopra le statue, volumes I and II.
A fine set of engravings of classical and renaissance statues. The Rossi volume is identical to the first issue of 1704, but with imprimatur leaf dated 1742. The second volume contains engravings after the artist Campiglia. He was a pupil of Redi and Lorenzo de Moro in Florence, settling in Rome in 1716 and specialising in drawing copies of antiquities. Berlin Kat. 4206 (Rossi); Cicognara 3542 (Piroli). (2)
Folio (481 x 372mm). Letterpress half-title, engraved title from the 1704 edition, engraved dedication, and 163 plates of statues by C. Randon, N. Corigny, R.V. Auden Aerd, F. Andriot, G.B. de Poilly, and G.G. Frezza, engraved head- and tailpieces by F. Aquila, engraved initial, woodcut initials. Text bound before engraved title and plates. (Some light browning.) 19th-century half polished calf (slightly rubbed).
CAMPIGLIA, Giovannni Domenico (1692-after 1775). [Statue. Rome: c.1740s]. 100 engraved plates of statues by C. Mogalli, C. Gregori, G.B. Jacoboni, G. Guttieriez, V. Franceschini, G.M. Preissler, C. Orsolini, G.G. Frezza, M. Pitteri, M. Sorvello and others after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia. -- PIROLI, Tommaso. [Niobes historia Graecae sculpturae miraculum. N.p.: n.d.]. Engraved dedication and 7 (of 15?) plates by Piroli, one leaf of letterpress text. Uniformly bound with the above volume as Sposizioni sopra le statue, volumes I and II.
A fine set of engravings of classical and renaissance statues. The Rossi volume is identical to the first issue of 1704, but with imprimatur leaf dated 1742. The second volume contains engravings after the artist Campiglia. He was a pupil of Redi and Lorenzo de Moro in Florence, settling in Rome in 1716 and specialising in drawing copies of antiquities. Berlin Kat. 4206 (Rossi); Cicognara 3542 (Piroli). (2)