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Venuti, Ridolfino and Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi.
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Description
- Vetera monumenta quae in Hortis Caelimontanis et in aedibus Matthaeiorum adservantur... Rome: Venanzio Monaldini, 1776-1779
3 volumes, folio (415 x 272mm.), engraved titles, dedication and 270 numbered plates, a few double-page, some with more than one engraved image to the page, engraved head- and tailpieces and initials, contemporary vellum gilt, occasional light spotting or soiling, slight stain to foot of a few leaves of vol.2, apparently lacking a few preliminary leaves (according to page numeration, but the work is as bound at around the time of publication), the genitalia of statues in vol.1 ineffectually erased or obscured
Literature
Rossetti, Rome 11296; Cicognara 3898; not in Berlin Cat.