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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
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Campus Martius antique urbis. Rome: 1762
Folio (21 x 16 in.; 533 x 408 mm). 2 engraved titles, 2 headpieces, 2 initials, 2 tailpieces, and 43 engraved plates (2 folding and one full-sheet) mostly by Piranesi; first title-page very lightly spotted, a few small library markings not affecting plates. Modern half calf over nineteenth-century marbled boards, earlier morocco labels preserved on spine; extremities slightly rubbed.
Folio (21 x 16 in.; 533 x 408 mm). 2 engraved titles, 2 headpieces, 2 initials, 2 tailpieces, and 43 engraved plates (2 folding and one full-sheet) mostly by Piranesi; first title-page very lightly spotted, a few small library markings not affecting plates. Modern half calf over nineteenth-century marbled boards, earlier morocco labels preserved on spine; extremities slightly rubbed.
Provenance
The New York State Library, Albany (bookplate; Sotheby's, 25 November 1997, lot 143)
Literature
Focillon 428–479; Hind, p. 85
Catalogue Note
A clean, fresh copy. Plate XXXI is a large folding plate by Arnold von Westerhout after Francesco Fontana.