[Views--Europe]

i) Varie vedute di Roma: antica e moderna disegnate e intaglia te da celebri autori. Rome: Fausto Amidei Libraro al' Corso, 1748, 93 engraved plates (including title), half calf, spotting and browning, binding rubbed; ii) [Vendramini Mosca, Francesco. Descrizione delle architetture, pitture e scolture di Vicenza, con alcune osservazioni. Vicenza: 1779], collection of 21 plates, 8vo, grey wrappers, sold as a collection of plates, minor creases, staining and spotting, wear to wrappers; iii) Austin, William. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner; exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome. Printed for T. Simpson, 1781, oblong folio (235 x 300mm.), 30 etchings, marbled paper wrappers, some spotting and browning throughout, loss to binding; iv) Travels in the Rhætian Alps. Printed for the author, by C. Clarke, 1792, folio, one engraved map, 10 aquatints, calf-backed boards, scattered spotting, hinges cracking, boards worn; v) Select views in Italy: with topographical and historical descriptions in English and French. John Smith, William Byrne, and John Emes, 1792-1796, 2 volumes, oblong folio, engraved dedication as title in volume one, 72 engraved plates, small painting laid in, 2 different plates imprinted 'plate 30', plates 40-42 misbound, title for volume one bound in the end of volume 2, lacks engraved map, minor spotting, browning and offsetting, bindings lightly rubbed and stained; vi) Wilkins, William. The Antiquities of Magna Graecia. Cambridge: [Printed at the University Press, by Richard Watts, 1807], folio, 72 plates engraved or aquatint, some tears and staining, loss to title, lacking boards; vii) Bardi, Lorenze. Florence: [?1825]. Collection of 26 engravings, oblong folio, grey wrappers, sold as a collection of plates, spotting, loss to upper corners not affecting images, staining to rear plates, wrappers worn; viii) A bound volume of 53 engravings, 1741-1786, oblong folio (360 x 530mm.), blue paper wrappers,  some browning, loss to binding; [with:] A roll of wallpaper, with scenes from Venice. Scenes including: "Caput Canalis et Ingressus in Urbem", "Prospectus a Columna S. Theodori ad ingressum Magni Canalis", "Bucentaurus et Nundinae Venetae in die Ascensionis", lightly browned, tears and some loss mostly to end (10)

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The scenes depicted on the wallpaper included in this lot are most likely after Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores, ex Antonii Canal tabulis XXXVIII.