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Wednesday 15 June 2022 e Thursday 16 June 2022, 03:00 PM • Rome

270

Genova - [Doria, Giovanni Francesco]

Of the history of Genoa from the Treaty of Worms to the Peace of Aachen., 1750

Estimate

€ 180 - 300

Sold

€ 179

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Leiden [but Modena], s.n., 1750. In 4th. 4 books in one vol. Frontispiece in red and black, with large intaglio vignette, large topographic table outside the text folded several times, engraved in copper by Giuseppe Benedetti, tear on the paper, some reddening and slight bluing on a few papers, contemporary binding in calfskin brown, 5-pin back, red leather gusset compartments with gold title and decorations of small festoons in gold, red cuts. Ancient note of possession to the guard sheet.


Specialist Notes

Rare second and final enlarged edition (the first, in just three books it is from 1743) of this important work, complete with the beautiful one “Topographic map of the contours of Genoa and the two valleys of Polcevera e Bisagno with its adjacencies ". The author, Duke of Massanova, entrusted the revision historian of the work to Ludovico Muratori. Melzi III, 109.

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