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Arcadia - Metastasio, Pietro

The Olympic games celebrated by the Arcadians in the Parrasio Wood to honor the memory of the accomplished Abbot Pietro Metastasio from Arezzo., 1784

Estimate

€ 50 - 100

Sold

€ 64

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Information

Rome, Antonio Fulgoni, 1784. In the 8th. Frontispiece and frontispiece engraved in copper by M.Carloni, coeval binding in brown calfskin, on the plates elegant frame of threads and phytomorphic wheel imprinted in gold, back with 5 nerves with floral irons on the compartments, golden cuts, some stains. A nineteenth-century handwritten note on the front sheet.


Provenance

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Specialist Notes

The 1784 edition of the Arcadian Olympic Games was dedicated to Metastasio, who died 2 years earlier. Our copy is printed on light blue paper.