Zabaglia, Nicola Architecture - Engineering - Rome - Zabaglia, Nicola - Castles and bridges [...] with some ingenious practices and with a description of the transportation of the Vatican obelisk and others by Cavaliere Domenico Fontana Rome, Crispino Puccinelli, 1824. In 2nd, loose sheets in beards. With 56 intaglio plates of 62 (missing Tables 11, 39, 41-43, 50) made to drawings by Francesco Rostagni, text in Italian and Latin, light browning and moisture marks to some cards. Missing portrait of the author designed by Pietro Leone Ghezzi and engraved by Girolamo Rossi.

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