Le antichità romane; opera di Giambatista Piranesi ... Divisa in quattro tomi nel primo de' quali si contengono gli avanzi degli antichi edifizi di Roma ... Nel secondo, e nel terzo Gli avanzi de' monumenti sepolcrali esistenti in Roma, e nell' Agro romano colle loro rispettive piante, elevazioni ... Nel quarto I Ponti antichi di Roma che inoggi sono in essere, colle Vestigia dell' antica Isola Tiberina ...

Author
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
Italian
Published/​Created
Roma, A. Rotilj, 1756.
Description
4 v. plates (part. fold., part double, incl. plans) 55 cm.

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Notes
  • Vol. 1 contains an additional 13 plates at the end, some dated 1787 and 2 by Francesco Piranesi. Vol. 3 has an additional double plate at the end signed: Cav. Piranesi F so must be dated after 1765. Described in A. M. Hind's Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1922, p. 83.
  • SAX copy, tomo 1: Incomplete: Title page and all leaves between page 40 and page iii (second series) wanting. Only plates v-vii present at beginning of volume. Catalogue information for Charlmont Library auction, 1892, pasted in.
Binding note
SAX copy, tomo 1: Calf, with gold tooling.
References
  • Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara 3828
  • F. Vinton, Subject-catalogue of the Library of College of New Jersey, (1884), p. 622, col. 1, shelf mark "Cabinet 3.25-28"
OCLC
5790523
Cico
  • 3828
Dclib
  • dcl:pk1
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