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A Book titled 'Bassirilievi del Museo Pio Clementino,....Tomo Quinto'...descritto da Ennio Quirino Visconti.', published by Da Luigi Mirri, dedicated to Pio Sesto. Con Privilegio Pontificio, Roma 1796, large folio, c. 645 x 445mm, with half-title, printed title with large engraved vignette, frontispiece papal portrait, leaf with publisher's dedication, preface and text, with bookplate of 'Bouchard' Libraire to inside front pasted down, 48 plates, numbered I-XLV plus A-C, in calf backed marbled boards, banded spine with gilt decorative tooling, the bindings worn, with considerable water-staining, and some discolouration of leaves, sold A/F Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751-1813) was conservator of the Capitoline Museums in Rome from 1787. He assisted his father in producing the first volume of Museo Pio-Clementino in 1782 and produced the six remaining volumes completing the last in 1807. This catalogue of the Roman Sculpture and Antiquities in the Vatican Collections, published over the course of many years "made an impact on archaeological studies second only to that of Winckelmann". The book sold in this auction is Volume V from the eight volume series. Together in this lot is offered an unrelated volume of prints by or after I Winkelmann relating to architectural orders, classical statues etc