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[Rome]. COLLECTION OF ENGRAVED VIEWS. VEDUTE. -DATRI, Pierre. New Collection of the Principal Views of Ancient and Modern Rome, Including the Ruins of the War, Drawn from Life in the Year 1849. Rome, Published by Datri, (ca. 1849). Oblong 8vo (17 x 22 cm), (1) engraved title page, 57 plates (10 x 13.4 cm in the mount). 19th-century red percaline in imitation shagreen, smooth spine, gilt title, two gilt scrolls framing the covers (foxing, hole in the illustration of the *Anfiteatro Castrense*). Fully engraved album, consisting of a title page and 57 black-and-white prints of the principal views of ancient and modern Rome, including the war ruins drawn from life in 1849 and engraved on copper by Pierre Datri. -Raccolta di 50 vedute antiche, e Moderne della città di Roma e sue vicinanze In Rome, published by Piale, (ca. 1800–1850). Oblong quarto (17 x 21 cm), (1) title leaf, 50 plates. Contemporary brown half-basane leather binding, smooth spine decorated with a triple gilt fillet, gilt title, speckled edges (corners and caps rubbed, slight marginal foxing). A collection of 50 copperplate engravings in black ink of Rome, based on works by Piranesi, Dom. Pronti, Pietro Parboni, F. Morel, and others, depicting various squares, basilicas (some with interior views), theaters, columns, and other monuments of the city. Included: ORLEANS, Pierre-Joseph d’. History of the Revolutions of Spain from the Destruction of the Gothic Empire to the Complete and Perfect Union of the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon Paris: Rollin Fils, 1734. 3 volumes in-4. Contemporary mottled fawn sheepskin, ribbed spine, red title and volume number labels, compartments decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, blind-stamped borders on the covers, gilt roulette on the edges, red-speckled edges (blunted corners, worn caps on vol. 1, minor marginal defects including foxing). A seminal work of early historiography on the history of Spain, beginning with the fall of Gothic rule and the Muslim invasion of 711, and continuing through the death of Ferdinand V in 1516, a moment that marked the unification of Spain under a single monarchy through the union of Castile and Aragon. The work is illustrated with a fold-out map engraved on copper by Bourgoin Volume I. XXVI–579 pp., (18) ff., 1 fold-out map Volume II. XIV–(1)–644 pp., (14) ff. Volume III. VII–(1)–655 pp., (12) pp.