Lot 80
  • 80

[Gironi, Robustiano]

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Le danze dei Greci. Milan: dall' imperiale regia stamperia, 1820
first edition, limited to 80 copies, folio (327 x 232mm.), half-title, 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates, modern red morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt edges, slightly spotted

Literature

not in Blackmer (second edition only, 1822)

Catalogue Note

Gironi was an Italian archaeologist and bibliographer who wrote a number of works on Greek subjects, illustrated with aquatints (see also lots 81 and 82). They were published in very small numbers, the limitation statement  appearing on the recto or verso of the last leaf.