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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Della Magnificenza ed Architettum de Romani... (F. 927-66)
etchings, before 1761, the complete set consisting of two titles, portrait of Pope Clement XIII after Piranesi by D. Cunego, two page dedication with one headpiece, 212 pages of text and indices with two initial letters and two tailpieces, adn set of 38 sheets, published ROme, 1761, with margins, slight staining in places, bound with Catalogo della Opera (F. 1), with a list of 60 Vedute di Roma (up to 1761), calf boards, gill-tooled designs at edges and in compartments on spine; gilt title on one compartment of spine, front and back partly split at join with spine, slight stains and scuffs
overall S. 560 x 430 mm (album)
Della Magnificenza ed Architettum de Romani... (F. 927-66)
etchings, before 1761, the complete set consisting of two titles, portrait of Pope Clement XIII after Piranesi by D. Cunego, two page dedication with one headpiece, 212 pages of text and indices with two initial letters and two tailpieces, adn set of 38 sheets, published ROme, 1761, with margins, slight staining in places, bound with Catalogo della Opera (F. 1), with a list of 60 Vedute di Roma (up to 1761), calf boards, gill-tooled designs at edges and in compartments on spine; gilt title on one compartment of spine, front and back partly split at join with spine, slight stains and scuffs
overall S. 560 x 430 mm (album)