188 - Various authors, Anthology of Views of Rome, Florence, and Bologna. ca. 1830. Oblong In-4° album (260x390 mm). Half-leather binding with marbled paper covers; corners and spine in light brown calfskin with gold fillets; the spine features four raised bands and the title embossed in gold. On the inside front cover is an ex-libris belonging to Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785–1861), a British bibliophile and collector who established a library of over 20,000 volumes at Eshton Hall in Yorkshire. The collection consists of 12 views of Rome from *Nuova raccolta delle principali vedute antiche e moderne dell’alma città di Roma e sue vicinanze*..., Rome: Giacomo Antonelli, 1830. The plates were engraved between 1824 and 1829 by various engravers, including the brothers Achille and Pietro Parboni and Pietro Ruga. / Giovanni Battista Cecchi (Florence, 1748 or 1749 – after 1815) and Matteo Carboni (active in Florence and Tuscany in the second half of the 18th century), based on designs by Giuseppe Zocchi and others, Collection of twenty-six views of the city of Florence, Florence: published by Lorenzo Bardi, ca. 1830 (Zocchino). Twenty-six burin engravings with a title in French and the publisher’s name at the bottom margin, numbered 1 through 26 (some unnumbered). Complete series known as “Zocchino,” based mostly on designs by Giuseppe Zocchi, engraved around 1800 by Cecchi and Carboni and first printed by Giuseppe Bardi, then republished by Lorenzo Bardi around 1830 without a typographic border and with the title in French only / 35 views of Bologna from a collection of 50 selected views of the city of Bologna. Bologna: published by Giovanni Zecchi, print dealer, undated [after 1821]. Plates depicting the monuments and principal sites of Bologna, engraved by Pietro Romagnoli, Francesco Franceschini, Camillo Lambertini, and Bernardo Rosaspina after drawings by Gaetano Canuti, Pio Panfili, and Gaetano Ferri; some dated 1823 and 1827 on the plate. (1) Binding shows signs of wear; plates are in excellent condition.