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Magnificent, uncut and unbound copy of Nolli's famous map of Rome, considered one of the most important works in the history of cartography. The w...

A bound copy of Nolli's famous map of Rome. The work was commissioned by Pope Benedict XIV as a census of Rome and to help create the demarcations...

Homann, 1755.Large-format map reproducing the plan published by Leonardo Bufalini in 1551. The intricate plan includes an index identifying 307 pl...

gl'edifizj antichi, e moderni sagri, e profani della città di Roma. Rome: Roisecco, 1765.Scarce enlarged edition of one of the most famous guides ...

descrizione topografica e istorica di Roma moderna. Rome: Barbiellini, 1767.A beautiful guide to Rome, complete with plates, many by Piranesi, sho...

più nobili cosi antiche come moderne. Rome: Carlo Losi, 1773.Third edition (after the first of 1665 printed by De Rossi, and the second by Matteo ...

Caelimontanis et in aedibus Matthaeiorum adservantur. Rome: Monaldini, 1776-1779.A work illustrating the extraordinary collection of Roman and Gre...

Large engraved map of Rome indicating the location of over 400 architectural and archaeological sites. The large map was prepared as a conclusion ...

editions published before the artist's death. [Rome, before 1778].Veduta del Ponte Lugano 2 states of 5, Veduta del Ponte Salario 1 state of 3, Ve...

editions published before the artist's death. [Rome, before 1778].Veduta interna Basilica di S. Giovanni 2 states of 5, Veduta della Basilica di S...

editions published before the artist's death. [Rome, before 1778].Veduta della Gran Curia innocenziana 1 state of 4, Veduta della Basilica di San ...

editions published before the artist's death. [Rome, before 1778].Rovine del Sisto 1 state of 4, Veduta del Tempio di Bacco 2 states of 5, Tempio ...

Roma. Con una indicazione antiquaria tanto di esse statue, quanto degli altri monumenti, che s' incontrano negli stessi luoghi di quelle. Rome: Mo...

più celebri autori. Rome: s.e., 1796.First volume (of three) of this first edition, entirely engraved, on temples and monuments of Rome, each with...

Roma. Rome: Montagnani-Mirabili, 1803.Second edition of this extensive description of the antiquities of Rome, accompanied by 65 plates, many of w...

fatti in Roma in questi tempi. Rome: s.e., 1818.Scarce first edition of this collection of views masterfully engraved by Rossini, ''heir'' of Pira...

(1821 on the engraved title page).First and only edition of one of Nibby's scarce works, with 31 plates at the end of the volume illustrating the ...

English edition of this complete collection of 27 Roman views drawn and engraved by Pinelli.4to, (232 x 162mm). 27 plates with tissue guards (ligh...

Map with beautiful contemporary colouring showing, in addition to the 14 districts of Rome, the plans of the mausoleum of Santa Costanza, the Chur...

di San Paolo. Rome: Aurelj, 1840.First edition of this work describing the tabernacle or ciborium of St. Paul sculpted by Arnolfo di Cambio (1240-...

Rome: [s.e.], 1842.A charming collection of lithographs depicting Villa Borghese and its park, based on drawings by Landesio and Rosa, illustratin...

e nuovi abbellimenti. Rome: Monaldini, 1843.Beautiful map of Rome, depicted as an ancient bas-relief with sixteen views of the main monuments on t...

Roma del 1849 divise in dodici tavole dipinte d al prof. Carlo Werner ed incise all'acqua forte e bulino da Domenico Amici]. Rome: Bujani, [c. 187...

Large map made on a scale of 1:4000 by the Congregazione del Censo of the Papal States, the last version printed before the taking of Rome in 1871...

Beautiful and large lithographic view in contemporary colouring of the city of Rome from Piazza del Popolo Watercoloured lithograph, (565 x 730mm)...

Maggi, 1873.Interesting post-unification map showing the programmes of the first Regulatory Plan (1873) for the layout of the new capital, showing...

Maggio 1938. [1938].Important document of Armando Brasini's eclectic and monumental architecture and the ephemeral apparatus created for Adolf Hit...

Rome: Marco Pagliarini, 1770.First edition in this form, edited by Giambattista Spampani and Carlo Antonini, including Vignola's influential 1562 ...

l'origine de la gravure. Paris: Blaise, 1809.Second edition of this collection of historical information on the art of engraving and the lives of ...

monseigneur le Duc de Choiseul. Paris: at the Author's, 1771.Monumental collection of over 120 engravings illustrating works from the important co...

Verwandlungen. ca. 1770.Incomplete copy of this large collection of engraved plates by Bauer (1607-1642), a Baroque artist particularly known for ...

Girolamo Porro. Venice: Ziletti, 1586.Unique edition of this elegant book of emblems dedicated to Cardinal Federico de Medici, illustrated with ov...

et romaines. Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1752-1764.Copy with armorial binding of John Stuart 3rd Earl of Bute, British Prime Minister under George ...

des papiers de l'Etat, [1905].Scarce work, one of the first devoted to Central Asian ceramics, analysing their characteristics and influences from...

pottery and glass, 1865-1900. London: Taylor and Francis, 1901.A scarce, privately published work, last appearing at auction in the 1950s (RBH) il...

Mancha. London: Tonson, 1738.An excellent copy of the first edition in its original Spanish to be printed in England, and among the best in terms ...

Giouan Battista de Caualieri. Rome: Domenico Basa, [1590].First edition of this biographical history of the Roman emperors of the West, East, and ...

Hearth. Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1843-1846.First continental edition published almost simultaneously with the London edition of Charles Dickens' famous...

etrusques, grecques et romaines. Paris: presso l'autore (David), 1785.Two volumes of this elegant edition in a contemporary morocco binding, compl...

1772-1774.First edition, a handsomely bound copy of this work following the vogue for encyclopaedic publications in the second half of the 18th ce...

Peintre Celebre. 1775.Complete series, in fine condition and with full margins, of the various Venetian portraits dedicated to the painter Domenic...

Later impression of The Agony in the Garden and the DepositionBifolium within frame, (200 x 340). Copper engraving on bifolium without watermark. ...

cabinet secret du Mus?? Royal de Naples. Paris: Ledoux, 1832.First complete edition of these 41 erotic plates illustrating objects and sculptures ...

Exemplar with 4 extra plates (following OPAC collation), of this collection of biographies written by Félibien Des Avaux, historiographer to the k...

Engraving reproducing the painting made in 1561 by Tintoretto for the Refectory of the Convent of the Crucifers in Venice and now kept in the Sacr...

Martin, 1650.First edition of this important comparative study of classical architectural orders elegantly illustrated and in a contemporary bindi...

Ex dono auctoris copy to Arnold Mortier of this album consisting of 28 full-page coloured vignettes of a humorous nature offering an interesting i...

Venice: s.e., 1792.A fine copy, in a contemporary binding, of this collection of plates drawn and engraved by the leading Venetian artists of the ...

(1741-1824). Histoire de France, repr?sentàe par figures accompagn'es de discours. Paris: David, 1787-1796.Rare, fine work covering French history...

14 volumes, 8vo and 16mo. These include: GELLI, Jacopo (1858-1935). Manuale del Biliardo. Milan: Hoepli, 1895. First edition with 79 engravings [W...

3 works. BELL, Munro. The Furniture Designs of Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton. London: Gibbings and Company, 1910. [WITH:] BAINBRIDGE, Hen...

5 works: ROBIDA, Albert. La Grande Mascarade parisienne. Paris, Librairie illustr. (1881-84) [WITH:] UZANNE, Octave. La femme a Paris. Paris: Anci...

Chauffort and Le Prince.Fine lot of works illustrated by the best French arists of the period.DORAT Claude Joseph (1734-1781). Fables nouvelles. T...

ed il Trattato della statua di Leon Battista Alberti. Bologna: Instituto delle scienze, 1786.An important text containing three works fundamental ...

First complete edition of the works of the playwright Pier Jacopo Martello in an unrecorded variant, with the 15 plates by Francesco Aquila engrav...

Third edition of this interesting work on carpentry with numerous illustrations and finely engraved plates in copper. Of these, 9 are architectura...

An important work on the iconography of the Serenissima praising the Doges of Venice, featuring the engraved portraits of 104 doges from Paoluccio...

sonnenklare Vorstellung menschlicher Nichtigkeit durch alle Stànd und Geschlechter. Zurich: Bodmer, 1650.Fine copy with the plates in fine impress...

Heracleenses. Naples: Gessari, 1754-1755.Scarce original edition, often incomplete, of this treatise on epigraphy regarding the bronze plates of H...

Large lot containing first editions of archaeological and numismatic interest, with interesting provenances.Folio, (312 x 215mm). 2 plates folded ...

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