PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA and others. Bound volume containing 93 engraved plates from works by G.B. Piranesi, Giorgio Gasparo de Prenner, Cornelius Bloemaert after Pietro Berettini da Cortona and others (many folding). Rome, c. 1750. Folio, contemporary vellum, some wear, spine ends torn and chipped; some light staining and foxing throughout. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return.

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PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA and others. Bound volume containing 93 engraved plates from works by G.B. Piranesi, Giorgio Gasparo de Prenner, Cornelius Bloemaert after Pietro Berettini da Cortona and others (many folding). Rome, c. 1750. Folio, contemporary vellum, some wear, spine ends torn and chipped; some light staining and foxing throughout. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return.

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Plates by Piranesi from Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto, Rome, 1753 (9 plates, including view); Opere varie di Architettura, Prospettiva, Groteschi, Antichità; Rome, 1750 (16 plates); and Camere Sepolcrali, (15 plates). Also bound in: Georg Caspar von Prenner, Illustri fatti Farnesiani coloriti nel real palazzo di Caprarola, Rome, 1748 (41 plates).

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