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

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Vües des Palais, Batimens celebres, Places, Mascarades, et Autres Beautés Singulieres de la Ville de Vénise, 1762

Estimate

€ 2.000 - 3.000

Sold

€ 8.880

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Lyons, Cornelius Hackius, 1762. In 2 °. & Nbsp; With 1 copper door and 112 (of 115) double-page plates engraved in copper, each numbered and with caption in Italian, Latin, French depicting Venetian palaces and festivities , numbered 1-8, 11-101 and 103-115, slight blooms and some reddening, missing the title page, coeval binding in full hazelnut leather with traces of a gold title within the spine, red cuts, defects on the back, hinges and edges, some scratches and peeling. & nbsp;

Specialist Notes

First edition of this book with 112 splendid tables of the city of Venice. An excellent example of landscape painting in which the horizon is described from a slightly raised point of view. & Nbsp;