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Castellamonte, Amedeo di.
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Venaria reale, palazzo di piacere, e di caccia. Turin: Bartolomeo Zapatta, 1674-1679
- Paper
Folio (277 x 198mm.), engraved frontispiece, title, portrait and 62 plates (33 double-page, 10 folding), engraved section-title, modern green morocco with matching slipcase (but untrimmed), inkstamp on title, signature on verso of title-page showing through onto recto with slight loss, some repaired tears to plates, most plates with new guards
Provenance
Giuseppe --, Capuchin priest in Turin, inscription on verso of frontispiece and on title-page
Literature
Cicognara 3982
Catalogue Note
First edition. Castellamonte was appointed by Carlo Emanuele II, duke of Savoy, to create a pleasure palace and hunting lodge near Turin.