- 81
Gironi, Robustiano.
Estimate
1,800 - 2,400 GBP
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Description
- Saggio di Robustiano Gironi intorno alle costumanze civili dei Greci. Milan: Giulio Ferrario, 1823
first edition, limited to 80 copies, folio (370 x 252mm.), half-title, 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates, original red boards, spine slightly torn and lacking small pieces
Literature
not in Blackmer; Colas 1254; Lipperheide 186
Catalogue Note
rare, one of only 80 copies. There is no record on ABPC of a copy selling at auction in the last 30 years.
The plates in this work, published by Giulio Ferrario, also appeared in Ferrario's magnum opus, Il costumi antico e moderno (first Italian edition 1827, see Blackmer 588).