Live auction - Lot 1091
[Italy - Rome]
Li monumenti più celebri di Roma antica e moderna, disegnati dal vero ed incisi dai milgiori artisti.
Hammer price: €
310
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
Rome, P. Datri, 1850
Oblong 4to: title and 60 pl. (marg. foxing, modern ms. notes in pencil in some margins).
Contemp. half red shagreen, gilt ruled red buckram on covers, gilt orn. spine with raised bands (rubbed).
Composed of 61 copper-engravings: title and 60 plates figuring the famous monuments of Rome with captions in Italian and French (Pantheon, Colosseum, Temple of Vesta, Basilica of Saints John and Paul, "Seraglio di Domiziano", Forum of Nerva, the Cloaca Maxima, Tomb of Caecilia Metella, Saint Peter, etc.).