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Parma: Expensis & labore Francisci Mazalis, 1505.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in twentieth-century stiff vellum. A broad-margined copy, some leaves gently washed, contemporary annotations to some leaves, occ. use of light colored wash to the woodcuts, insignificant mild soiling. Illustrated with 59 woodcuts. This is the only book known under Mazali's imprint at Parma (he was established at Reggio Emilia...
N.pl. n.pr. 1701.
Price: $11,500.00
Bound in contemporary blind-ruled ivory vellum, re-cased, with blind-stamped floral ornaments at the corners and arabesque at center. The text and etchings are in very fine condition. Minor stain to inner margin of final leaf, tear in blank inner margin of title page,, small nick in outer margin of page...
Rome: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1762.
Price: $84,000.00
An extremely fine copy of the first edition, bound in a fabulous contemporary Baroque binding by an unidentified Roman binder. Binding and contents in excellent condition. Binding with light wear at the hinges, contents extremely fresh with dark, rich impressions of the plates. There is a little damp-staining to the...
[N.P, N.D.]: ca. 1774.
Price: $8,500.00
Image size (from plate mark): 121.2 x 71.1 cm. A fine impression, tiny area of blank left margin neatly repaired, some marginal finger-soiling. With no staining or discoloration where the three sheets are joined. Paper with watermark of a fleur-de-lis within a double circle.Piranesi’s map extends the area covered by...
Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1550.
Price: $3,750.00
First state. With Lafreri’s excudit: “Ant. LafrerI FormIs Romae MDL” at lower right. Watermark “Duck in a Circle”(cf. Woodward 79-80). A fine impression, rich in tone, with light marginal foxing and light soiling, particularly in the lower right corner, and some trivial surface soiling to the image.An iconic image of...
Rome: Nella Stamperia di Gio. Battista de Caporali, per andare all'Orso, 1729.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in later carta rustica. A fine, fresh copy on crisp paper. Very faint soiling to upper margin. A large historiated initial, decorative head- and tail-pieces. With the arms of Cardinal Polignac on the title page.A very rare account of the elaborate transformation of Piazza Navona to celebrate the birth...
![Item #4549 [Pyramid of Gaius Cestius.] Sepvlchrvm C. Cesti Epvlonis Ostiensi Via Et Pyramide Et...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4549.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691862608)
Rome: Nicolaes van Aelst, ca. 1589.
Price: $2,400.00
A fine copy, rich in tone, with broad margins (including partial deckled edges), with a little light marginal soiling and a tiny hole in the blank margin. Very lightly creased at the center, with an original paper guard on the verso. The numeral “13” in early manuscript at lower right...
Rome:, A spese di Niccola Roisecco, 1765.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in three uniform bindings of contemporary patterned paste-paper over cartoncino boards. wear to extremities and spines. Internally this is as close to an immaculate set as I have seen, with some deckled edges preserved. The text is bright and clean throughout. The folding engravings are crisp. The three volumes are...
Prague: Aegidius Sadeler, 1606.
Price: $25,000.00
A very fine, broad-margined copy with very rich and clear impressions of the plates. Occ. marginal soiling, a few pin-prick wormholes in the margins of a few leaves. Bound in contemporary morocco, richly tooled in gold. With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide...
Rome: presso l’autore, 1819-, 1823.
Price: $45,000.00
A fine, complete set with all 101 engraved plates. Bound in 19th c. diced calf in two volumes (corners bumped, light wear to hinges and head and foot of spines). The boards are framed by multiple gold rules with additional blind-ruling and roll-tooling. Attractive floral roll-tooling to turn-ins. Spine with...
Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1660.
Price: $18,000.00
With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide hung on a monument; an engraved dedication to Matthaeus Wacker von Wackenfels (numbered'1'), with the text incised on a stone tablet between flanking obelisks and with two putti supporting the dedicatee's arms; and 49 full-paged engraved...
Bologna: Presso gli heredi di Euangelista Dozza, 1647.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in three uniform bindings of contemporary stiff vellum, somewhat soiled. The text is in overall fine condition, with some light browning, occasional foxing, and a few marginal damp-stains. The three volumes are illustrated throughout with the well-known woodcut portraits of the artists set within ornate frames. For this edition the...
Rome: Presso Lazzarini, 1792.
Price: $8,400.00
Printed on blue paper. In contemporary mottled calf, the spine and boards tooled in gold. A very fine copy of the very rare first catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino - founded by Pope Clement XIV in 1771 and greatly expanded his successor by Pius VI-, written for the use of...
