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[Rome], Giacomo Raffaelli in the Spanish Steps, [1804]. In 4th oblong. 2 vols. Each volume with engraved title page and 100 plates numbered I-C, the legend below the engraved part, signed in the plate by the author in the lower right corner, at the end 10 pages with the explanatory text of the plates and the index, light flourishes and reddening on some leaves, slight gaps in the margins of a few leaves, coeval half parchment binding, green morocco insert on the spine with author and title embossed in gold, missing plates.
Specialist Notes
Original edition uncommon and rare to find complete with this work of great archaeological and artistic interest. Vast documentation on clothing, costumes, utensils, clothing items, hairstyles, footwear, as well as on minute archaeological finds, sculptures, pottery of the Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman civilizations. Colas 2562; Lipperheide 112; Cicognara 1781 (indicates only 100 tables).
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