PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-78). Catalogo delle opere date finora alla luce . Rome: the author, [after 1761]. Royal-size broadsheet (504 x 413 mm), heavy laid paper, with watermark. Etching by Piranesi (Robison state 3), platemark: 397 x 295 mm. (Some marginal soiling, unobtrusive vertical crease at left.) Cloth portfolio. FINE IMPRESSION, with wide margins. Rare early issue of Piranesi's splendid historiated catalogue, advertising Antichità Romane , Architetture diverse , Carceri d'invenzione , Della magnificenza ed architettura de' Romani , and other works, as well as listing plates 1-60 of Vedute di Roma . Wilton-Ely 1; Hind p. 6 no. 2 (copies at British Museum, Cambridge University Library).
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-78). Catalogo delle opere date finora alla luce . Rome: the author, [after 1761]. Royal-size broadsheet (504 x 413 mm), heavy laid paper, with watermark. Etching by Piranesi (Robison state 3), platemark: 397 x 295 mm. (Some marginal soiling, unobtrusive vertical crease at left.) Cloth portfolio. FINE IMPRESSION, with wide margins. Rare early issue of Piranesi's splendid historiated catalogue, advertising Antichità Romane , Architetture diverse , Carceri d'invenzione , Della magnificenza ed architettura de' Romani , and other works, as well as listing plates 1-60 of Vedute di Roma . Wilton-Ely 1; Hind p. 6 no. 2 (copies at British Museum, Cambridge University Library).
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