10 - Carlo Antonini, Series LXXXV. Drawings of various sizes by the famous painter Salvator Rosa, published and engraved by Carlo Antonini and dedicated to His Excellency Count Stanislao Potoki, Knight of the Order of St. Stanislaus. Rome: at the Casaletti printing house, MDCCLXXX [1780]. Large folio (492 x 378 mm). Half-morocco binding, with gold decoration and the artist’s name on the spine, morocco corners, and a gold-decorated fillet. Covers in marbled paper. On the inside front cover, an ex-libris bearing the coat of arms of the Grenville Temple family. The volume consists of a title page, 2 sheets comprising 3 pages of a dedication to Stanisław Potocki and to lovers of the art of drawing, 85 etchings on 36 sheets—of which 68 are from the “Figurine” series (15 sheets with 4 etchings each and 1 with 2), 6 from the “Tritons” series (3 sheets with 2 etchings per sheet), 13 large full-page plates, and the last 4 as folded double-page spreads. Beautiful prints in dark red on slightly thick laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle over the letter B.” An important publication dedicated to all of Salvator Rosa’s most celebrated engravings: the 62 small “Figurine” prints (genre figures, warriors, and youths in exotic costumes); 6 prints of tritons and fauns; 13 full-page etchings depicting: Glaucus and Scylla, Diogenes, The Dream of Aeneas, Ceres and Phytalus, Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl, Jason and the Dragon, Saint William of Malavalle, Democritus in Meditation, Saint Albert, Disciple of Saint William; The Genius of Salvator Rosa; Diogenes and Alexander; Alexander in Apelles’ Studio; Plato’s Academy. And, finally, 4 large double-page etchings depicting Attilius Regulus, The Rescue of the Child Oedipus, The Crucifixion of Polycrates, and The Fall of the Giants. (1) A fine copy in excellent condition.