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Books, Autographs & Prints / Part I

Tuesday 30 March 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Brescia - Sambuca, Antonio

Historical-critical memories around the ancient state of the Cenomani and their borders, 1750

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€ 2.000 - 3.000

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€ 4.848

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Brescia, Giammaria Rizzardi, 1750 [1752]. In 2nd. Eye, frontispiece printed in red and black with intaglio vignette, with 3 folded plates depicting a beautiful view of Brescia and a table depicting an ancient manuscript, with 12 beautiful copper engraved heads of views of Brescia, engraved by Francesco Zucchi on drawings by Francesco Battaglioli, slight halo at the upper and outer edge of the last cards, small tear at the inner edge of the first and third panel, restorations on the second, some sporadic flowering, contemporary half leather binding with title stamped in gold within a red patch on the smooth spine with friezes, corner defects, some halos and abrasions, small gaps.



Specialist Notes

First edition of this splendid illustrated book, Sambuca's passionate homage to his beloved Brescia. Impressive is the iconographic apparatus with 12 large views of the city designed and engraved by Francesco Battaglioli and Francesco Zucchi. All the symbolic places of Brescia are represented: Piazza Maggiore, Piazza del Duomo, the Public Palace, Piazza del Gambaro The Clock, the Queriniana Library, the Spedale Maggiore, the New Market, the Theater, & nbsp;