[Pinelli]. Bartolomeo Pinelli's Collection of Picturesque Customs in the 1809 edition with 48 numbered and signed etched plates and 6 plates from second copy (missing plates 4 and 50). Also in the lot is the New Collection in the 1816 Roman edition with 49 etched plates (missing plate 44) and plates 23 and 34 present a second time with beautiful coeval coloring, and Inconvéniens d'un voyage en diligence by Xavier Leprince of 1826 with 12 lithographic plates finished in color. (4)

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