Details
SESTI, Giovanni Battista. Piante della città, piazze, e castelli fortificati in questo stato di Milano. Milan: Agnelli, 1708.
4° (260 x 200mm). Title with engraved vignette. Folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, one folding plan of Milan castle hightened in yellow, 22 engraved city plans, 8 with some areas highlighted in green, each with facing letterpress leaf and on the verso a letterpress key within an elaborate engraved border, G1 with text pasted on the recto. (Tiny holes in I1, K1, L1 and N1.) Contemporary limp boards (lightly soiled). Provenance: Bibliotheca Viennensi (18th/19th century ink stamp on title).
A fine copy of this work, with detailed palns of the fortifications of the cities in the Province of Milan.
4° (260 x 200mm). Title with engraved vignette. Folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, one folding plan of Milan castle hightened in yellow, 22 engraved city plans, 8 with some areas highlighted in green, each with facing letterpress leaf and on the verso a letterpress key within an elaborate engraved border, G1 with text pasted on the recto. (Tiny holes in I1, K1, L1 and N1.) Contemporary limp boards (lightly soiled). Provenance: Bibliotheca Viennensi (18th/19th century ink stamp on title).
A fine copy of this work, with detailed palns of the fortifications of the cities in the Province of Milan.