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Thursday 09 March 2023 e Friday 10 March 2023, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Piazza, Vincenzo

Good conquered. Poem... with the allegory taken from Count Marcantonio Ginanni... and with the arguments of Count Fabrizio Monsignani..., 1694

Estimate

€ 100 - 200

Sold

€ 142

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Parma, Press of the Court of S.A.S., 1694. In 8°. Allegorical frontispiece and full-page portrait of the author engraved in copper by Westerhout, 12 full-page tipped-in plates engraved in copper by Westerhout and Dorigny based on a design by Mauro Oddi, foxing and speckles, small lack on the corner of the title page, p . 147 stained, binding in calfskin of the time, spine with 4 raised bands, red morocco gussets with title and phytomorphic friezes on the compartments, red sprayed cuts, slight peeling.    

Specialist Notes

First edition. "The poem is very well proportioned in its structure, chaste in style... and quite interesting" (Belloni 207). Vinciana II, 2834; Graesse V,279.