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Toscana - Pittura - Lami, Giovanni

Lessons on Tuscan Antiquities and especially on the city of Florence, 1766

Estimate

€ 180 - 250

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€ 232

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Information

Florence, Bonducci, 1766. In 8°. 2 vols. Copper typographic brand on the title page, with two-color titles, drop caps and woodcut friezes with 14 plates. out of text, including 2 portraits of the author and of Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to whom the work is dedicated, the Veduta de' contorni di Firenze on p.284 is missing, woodworm holes in the internal margin of the last leaves of the Index with slight loss of text, foxing, 19th century binding in half leather and marbled cardboard. Membership signature on the title page. § Luigi Lanzi. Pictorial history of Italy. Bassano, Remondini, 1809. In 8th large. 6 vols. Marginal sporadic foxing, coeval binding in half leather and sponged cardboard. Ex libris on the backplate, Fratelli Salimbeni. 

Specialist Notes

Moreni I, 496 declares it divided into three parts, while the work is complete in two. Gamba 2292: “Valuable edition...These are XVIII long and learned lessons”. Lozzi 5523. Graesse IV, 89. Cicognara 3149: “very learned work”.

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