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DU P?RAC, Eìtienne (ca. 1535-1604). I vestigi dell'antichità di Roma raccolti et ritratti in perspettiva . Rome: Della Vaccheria, 1575.
Incomplete copy of this scarce first edition collection of engravings, all double-page illustrations of monuments, buildings, and ruins of Rome. These are not purely illustrative plates, but views of an inhabited city, offering a portrait of life in mid-16th-century Rome.Oblong folio (but bound as 4to), (255 x 204mm). Double-page engraved title-page and dedication, 35 (of 39) double-page plates mounted on brackets (missing plates 8-9 and 38-39, minor restoration to plate no. 4, signs of colouring to plate no. 34). Elegant 20th-century binding in half vellum, title lettered to spine in manuscript, blue edges (inner spine unglued, some light wear). (1)
ESTIMATE € 300 - 500
LOTS
26
D'ANNUNZIO, Gabriele (1863-1938); DE CAROLIS, Adolfo (1874-1928). Dante adriacus, 1920.
D'ANNUNZIO, Gabriele (1863-1938); DE CAROLIS, Adolfo (1874-1928). Dante adriacus, 1920.
ESTIMATE € 1,000 - 1,500
28
DELL'UVA, Benedetto (1540-1582). Le vergini prudenti. Florence: Sermartelli, 1582.
DELL'UVA, Benedetto (1540-1582). Le vergini prudenti. Florence: Sermartelli, 1582.
ESTIMATE € 100 - 200
31
ENNIUS, Quintus (239 BC-169 BC). Quae supersunt fragmenta. Naples: Salviani, 1590.
ENNIUS, Quintus (239 BC-169 BC). Quae supersunt fragmenta. Naples: Salviani, 1590.
ESTIMATE € 600 - 1,000
34
FOLARD, Jean-Charles de (1669-1752). Histoire de Polybe. Amsterdam: Chatelain, 1759.
FOLARD, Jean-Charles de (1669-1752). Histoire de Polybe. Amsterdam: Chatelain, 1759.
ESTIMATE € 500 - 800