Parasacchi, Domenico.

4to (265 x 195mm.), engraved title-page, 92 engraved plates (7 folding), contemporary vellum, wormholes in lower margin throughout (just touching one plate), one plate torn and repaired, binding slightly soiled

Hyacinthus (Jacek) Lopacki, archpresbyter of Krakow (d. 1761), inscription on inside front cover; C.E. Rappaport, bookseller, Rome, label on inside front cover

Lopacki founded the town library of Krakow in 1758 with a donation of 200 books.

Rossetti 7848 (specifying 46 plates); cf. Berlin Katalog 3601 (1637 edition)

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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This is a composite volume, also containing plates from Giovanni Maggi's Fontane diverse (Rome: G.D. Rossi, 1645; BAL RIBA 2001), engraved by Maggi, Francesco Cordoba and Dominique Barrière. The last six plates are of statues, one signed by Stefano Scolari and another by Sadeler, apparently printed in Munich ("excudit Monachii"), although Scolari is known as a publisher in Venice (sometimes together with Marco Sadeler) between 1664 and 1687.