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Vasi, Giuseppe Agostino.
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
- Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna. Rome: Stamperi del Chracas, 1747-1761
first edition, 10 parts in 3 volumes, oblong folio (265 x 390mm.), 10 titles with etched vignette, allegorical frontispiece, 201 (of 202) plates, numbered 1-200 (including 6 numbered in text, and 21 & 60 bis), other etched illustrations in text, contemporary boards, lacking engraved dedication and plate 67, boards rather rubbed, slightly soiled
Provenance
G.C. von Fechenbach, armorial book label
Literature
Berlin Kat. 1880; cf. RIBA 3389-3398 (second edition); Rossetti G-1193
Catalogue Note
Vasi was "an important contributor to European perceptions of contemporary Rome, and to the development of the techniques and subtleties of intaglio printmaking." (RIBA)
The second edition includes a half-title, which appears to have been designed as a general title for the whole work and includes a revised 'address to the reader', which no longer speaks of a work 'divisa in due Tomi', but of the 'dieci libri', ultimately published (cf. sale in these rooms, 7 May 2003, lot 311).