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PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Lettere di giustificazione scritte a Milord Charlemond intorno la dedica della sua opera delle Antichità di Roma fatta allo stesso, ed ultimamente soppressa. Rome: 1757.
Small 4°. Engraved title and 8 plates, including one folding double-page, one additional plate bound in at the front (with erased stamp), 5 engraved vignettes all by Piranesi. (Spotted throughout.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments (part of lettering-piece torn away, head and tail of spine chipped, rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. Cicognara 3830.
Small 4°. Engraved title and 8 plates, including one folding double-page, one additional plate bound in at the front (with erased stamp), 5 engraved vignettes all by Piranesi. (Spotted throughout.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments (part of lettering-piece torn away, head and tail of spine chipped, rubbed).
FIRST EDITION. Cicognara 3830.