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Roccheggiani, Lorenzo

Collection of One Hundred Tables representing the Civil and Military Religious Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans., 1804

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€ 400 - 600

Sold

€ 516

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Information

[Rome], Giacomo Raffaelli in Piazza di Spagna, [1804]. In 4th oblong. 2 vols. Each volume with engraved title page and 100 plates numbered I-C, the legend below the engraved part, signed on the plate by the author at the bottom right, at the end 10 pages with the explanatory text of the plates and the index, light flourishes and reddening on some papers, slight gaps in the margins of a few papers, coeval binding in half parchment, green morocco insert on the spine with author and title embossed in gold, missing parts on the plates.

Specialist Notes

Original edition, uncommon and rare to find complete with this work of great archaeological and artistic interest. Vast documentation on clothing, costumes, utensils, clothing items, hairstyles, shoes, as well as on minute archaeological finds, sculptures, pottery from the Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman civilisations. Colas 2562; Lipperheide 112; Cicognara 1781 (indicates only 100 plates).

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