RARE BOOKS, ATLASES, MAPS AND GRAPHIC ARTS.

Lotto 1 - Signatures of French Kings. LOUIS XVI - LOUIS XVIII. - LOUIS XVI. Autograph letter signed to Cardinal Muzio Gallo.Versailles, 31.01.1789 Folio. 368x240mm. Text on one page, signed and dated “Ecrit a Versailles le 31 Janvier 1789”. Seal with Crown and Lilies of France embossed on the applied label. On the reverse to the recipient "A Mon Cousin le Cardinal Gallo". Excellent condition. Autographed letter from the King reciprocating the New Year's greetings. Muzio Gallo, Cardinal since 1785, had been appointed Bishop of Viterbo and Toscanella the same year. It is interesting to note that Louis XVI addresses the Cardinal calling him "Mon Cousin", since the cardinal is a prince of the Church and therefore the King attests with this use of "cousin" the meaning of royalty of the cardinal's dignity. Bound with: LOUIS XVIII. "Ordonance du roi". Louis par la grace de Dieu, Roy de France & de Navarre.Paris, 20.05.1814 Folio. 295x192. On headed paper “Ministere de la Guerrre”. Text on one page. At the end signature of the King and date “Donne au Chateau des Tuilleries, le 20 Mai 1814”. Good condition. Important document, one of the first official acts signed by the King, who had returned to Paris as ruler a few days earlier, on May 3rd. In this ordinance the King appoints the 'Lieutenant-general' Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisne, comte de Bourmont, 1773–1846, who had served in Napoleon's army, Commander of the Sixth Military Division. Interesting is the correction that changes the Division from 18e to 6e, which proves the first-hand drafting of the document, in a period of great excitement.

Stima 1 500 - 1 800 EUR

Lotto 2 - Parchment Manuscript. LOUIS XIV. Appointment as Major of the 'Sieur de Frarin'. Handwritten document with the King's signature. - LOUIS XIV. Appointment as Major of the 'Sieur de Frarin'. Handwritten document with the King's signature.Camp d'Aluze, 16 June 1674 Parchment manuscript. 260x330 mm. Text on front, clear bureaucratic style writing, brown ink. King ‘Louis’ signature at the end. Countersignature by Michel (IV) Le Tellier. Slight traces of wear, good specimen. The King appoints the 'Sieur de Frarin' Major of the Sieur de Quincy cavalry regiment. The document was drawn up in the military camp of Aluze in Franche-Comté, where Louis XIV was for the war against the Spanish. The document bears the signature at the end of Michel (IV) Le Tellier, Marquis of Barbezieux, 'Secrétaire d'État de la Guerre' from 27 December 1651 to 27 October 1677.

Stima 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lotto 3 - Parchment Manuscript. LOUIS XIV. Appointment of company captain for 'Sieur Fruit'. Handwritten document with the King's signature. - LOUIS XIV. Appointment of company captain for 'Sieur Fruit'. Handwritten document with the King's signature.Versailles on 16 December 1691 Parchment manuscript. 300x490 mm. Text on front, clear bureaucratic style writing, black ink. King ‘Louis’ signature at the end. Countersignature by Michel (IV) Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois. Trace of brown sealing wax. Traces of wear and tear with no damage to text. Commission of company captain of the Souastre cavalry regiment for Jean-Guillaume Fruict, awarded at Versailles on 16 December 1691. Jean-Guillaume Fruict, 1653-1717, had previously been captain of the Guines regiment; thanks to this promotion he became captain of the Souastre regiment in the current department of Pas-de-Calais.

Stima 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lotto 4 - Parchment Manuscript. LOUIS XV. Appointment Second Company Captain for the 'Sieur de Tapffel'. ‘Trichard Le Cadet’. Handwritten document with the King's signature. - LOUIS XV. Appointment Second Company Captain for the 'Sieur de Tapffel'.‘Trichard Le Cadet’. Handwritten document with the King's signature. Versailles, 28 June 1748 Parchment manuscript. 300x490 mm. Text on front, clear bureaucratic style writing, brown ink. King ‘Louis’ signature at the end. Countersignature by Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson. Traces of wear and tear with no damage to text. Le 'Sieur de Tapffel' is appointed by the King as Second Captain of the Trichard Le Cadet Company, of the 'de La Marck' Infantry Regiment. The La Mark or La Marck regiment is a German infantry regiment of the Kingdom of France created in 1680 with the name of the Konigsmark regiment, renamed 'La Mark' in 1693. The document on parchment bears the signature of Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, comte d'Argenson, 'Secrétaire d'État de la Guerre' from January 1743 to February 1757.

Stima 500 - 600 EUR

Lotto 5 - Parchment Manuscript. LOUIS XIV. Designation of Nicolas Bihorel to the position of “Correcteur des Comptes de Normandie”. - LOUIS XIV. Designation of Nicolas Bihorel to the position of “Correcteur des Comptes de Normandie”.Paris, 6 November 1643 Oblong parchment manuscript. 300 x 600 mm. ‘Plica’ of 120 mm. Text on the recto in elegant chancery script, black ink. At the end the date “Donné à Paris le Sizieme jour du november … 1643”. Signature “Par le Roy Chesnelong” on the plica. Good condition. Nicolas Bihorel (-1675) receives, on behalf of the King who was five years old at the time, the prestigious position of Corrector of the Counts of Normandy. The Chamber of Accounts of Normandy was, under the Ancien Régime, a sovereign court specializing in the financial affairs of the Duchy of Normandy. It had, among other positions, two 'Correcteurs'.

Stima 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lotto 6 - Parchment Manuscript signed by the King Louis XIV. Commission de Capitaine d’une Compagnie dans le Régiment de Cavalerie d’Imecour pour le Sieur Hervé. - Oblong parchment manuscript measuring 300x480 mm. Text on the recto in elegant chancery handwriting, black ink. Under the handwritten signature of the King “Louis”. Trace of brown wax seal. Small flaw in the text, some small stains and tear at the lower margin which does not affect the text. Nice piece despite some small flaws. Commission of captain of a company of the Imecour cavalry regiment for Mr. Hervé “... qui a donné des preuves de son talent, courage, expérience en la guerre, vigilance et good conduct, fidélité et affection...” Countersigned in end 'Par le Roy” by Louvois Le Tellier, Secretary of State for War. In the left margin, a handwritten note signed Le Comte d'Auvergne”, which assigns Captain Hervè his place in the regiment. Frédéric-Maurice II de La Tour D'Auvergne, 1642-1707, Colonel General of the Light Cavalry, both French and foreign, Lieutenant General of the King's armies and Governor of the Province of Limousin.

Stima 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lotto 7 - Diploma of Nobility on Parchment. LOUIS XIV. Diploma of Nobility for Jean Jouenne, Lord of la Boëtrie. - Parchment folio approx. 37x65 cm, plica 12 cm; type size approx. 20x51 cm, with secretary's signature and countersignature. With Jouenne family's coat of arms painted in gold and colours (ca. 8x8,5 cm). With damaged wax seal. Slightly creased, dust on outside, coat of arms partly peeling paint. French certificate containing the diploma of nobility for Jean Jouenne, lord of la Boëtrie. On the note, Plica of August 1656. Louis XIV had all official documents signed by his ‘Secretaires de la main’. The ‘Secretaires de la main’ imitated the king's handwriting and signature on the documents he copied.Jean V Jouenne (1597 - 1677), lord of La Boëtrie, La Dronière, Lugerie, Tournelles, La Monnerie and du Moulin, master of the Eaux-&-Forêts de la vicomté de Falaise was a bourgeois by extraction and made noble by means of this diploma with the approval of Louis XIV. He kept the noble certificate until 1667, only to have it conferred on him again in 1670 and his family in 1698.

Stima 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lotto 8 - PIRANESI. Veduta di rovine con statua di Minerva. - Etching, 630x495 mm. Wide margins. State III/VII. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Stima 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 9 - Rome. BENOIST. Rome dans sa grandeur. - 3 volumes in Folio, 490x340 mm. Lavish publisher’s binding from the Charpentier atelier in quarter hazel shagreen and marbled cardboard, spine with 4 nervs and blind tooling with gilt title and coat of arms of Pope Pius IX, polychrome marbled endpapers. Half-title and titlepage printed in red and black with vignette engraved on steel in each volume. Vol. I: pp. IV, 90, 72. Headpieces, initial and illustrations engraved on steel, 28 full page plates.Vol. II: pp. 214, 32, 40. Headpieces, initial and illustrations engraved on steel, 34 full page plates.Vol. III: pp. 68, 74, 18, 28, 24, 36, 2 blank, Headpieces, initial and illustrations engraved on steel, 38 full page plates.A total of 100 lithographic plates, including the map of Rome at the end of the third volume.Scraped spines, little damage on end spine on the third volume. Tear restored on half title and titlepage on the third volume, spread foxing, overall a good specimen. Splendid collection with Roman views. The three volumes concern Ancient Rome, Christian Rome and Modern Rome: views of the city, landscapes, buildings and monuments are depicted. Sepia plates engraved by Felix and Philippe Benoist based on drawings by the major French artists of the time. Texts by various authors including Franz de Champagny, Eugène de La Gournerie, Edmond Lafond, Henri de Maguelonne, A. F. Rio and others. The work was presented on 17 February 1870 on the occasion of the inauguration of the Roman Exhibition of works of all art created for Catholic worship, commissioned by Pope Pius IX to honor the First Vatican Ecumenical Council. Philippe Benoist, French painter and lithographer, Geneva 1813 – Paris 1905, pupil of Louis Daguerre, created several works dedicated to cities such as Rome, Venice, Paris and Pompeii, reproducing their monuments and views.

Stima 6 000 - 7 000 EUR

Lotto 10 - DÜRER. Della simmetria de i corpi humani. - Folio. 330x225mm. Ancient vellum binding with handwritten title on the spine. [6], 143 [but 141], [1] leaves. Numbering errors, leaves 74 and 101 skipped. Printer's device on the title page and at the end, a fully illustrated volume with almost always full-page illustrations. Leaves M4, Q4 and Q5 are double leaves added to the quires: leaf Q4 printed on the recto and verso; leaves M4 and Q5 printed on the recto only. Some foxing and slight signs of wear, small lack on the fold of two folded leaves. A good copy with wide margins. First Italian edition of the first book dedicated to the proportions of the human body. Illustrated book with many illustrations of the human figure. Durer intends to demonstrate that the proportions and harmony of the human body depend on precise geometric rules, and are therefore reproducible through drawing. He then comes to theorize beauty itself as linked to mathematical proportions. Dürer, at the conclusion of numerous studies carried out on different types of individuals, accompanied his work with many illustrations of the human figure, the same, moreover, also reported in this first Italian edition. Garrison-Morton: “Written, designed, and illustrated by Dürer, this work is notable for its extraordinary series of anthropometrical woodcuts. The first two books deal with the proper proportions of the human form ; the third changes the proportions according to mathematical rules, giving examples of extremely fat and thin figures, while the last book depicts the human figure in motion and treats of foreshortenings. Dürer's work is the first attempt to apply anthropometry to aesthetics. The woodcuts represent the first attempt to employ cross-hatching to depict shades and shadows in wood engraving.” The Italian translation from the Latin version is by G.P. Gallucci, who adds a fifth book «which deals with which ways painters and sculptors can show the diversity of the nature of men and women [...]».

Stima 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

Lotto 11 - PIRANESI. Obelisco Egizio. - Etching, 535x400 mm. Wide margins. State II/V. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition. Beautiful etching of the Egyptian obelisk placed in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano in 1588 by the architect Domenico Fontana at the behest of Pope Sixtus V. At 32.18 m high, it is the tallest monolithic obelisk in the world.

Stima 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 12 - PIRANESI. Colonna Antonina. - Etching, 538x402 mm. Wide margins. State III/VII. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Stima 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 13 - CANALETTO. Il Portico con la lanterna. - Etching. 295x428 mm. Paper with watermark “Coat of arm crowned and lily”.State: III/III. Wonderful proof in the definitive state.In the engraving in lower left: FF4. In the lower margin, in the middle: A Canal f.Nice specimen with wide margin, brilliant inking. This view of fantasy is considered one of the high proof in the engraving art of Canaletto. Succi: “Il motivo, di evidente derivazione riccesca, è impostato sullo splendido contrasto tra il muro assolato della casa e i neri vellutati delle arcate in primo piano.”

Stima 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

Lotto 14 - Glass. NERI. L'arte vetraria distinta in libri sette. - 4to, mm. 200x140. Stiff vellum, handwritten title on spine. Pages [8], 114, [6]. Woodcut printer’s device on title, numerous woodcut initials, some historiated. Slight spread foxing and some dampstains, fine copy. First edition of the first book dedicated to glass, its manufacture and colouring. Honeyman: “Many of the secrets of glassmaking are here recorded for the first time. Neri is believed to have learned the art of glassmaking at Murano, near Venice.” D.S.B.: “Neri is remembered for L'arte vetraria, 1612, a little book in which many, although by no means all, of the closely guarded secrets of glassmaking were printed for the first time. He recommended that glass be made from rocchetta, a fairly pure sodium sesquicarbonate from the Near East, and tarso, which he described as a kind of marble but which must have been some form of silica. He did not indicate the source of the necessary proportion of lime. The main part of the text deals with the coloring of glass with metallic oxides to give not only clear and uniform colors but also various veined effects. There are chapters on making lead glass of high refractive index and enamel, opaque, glass by the addition of tin oxide.” Singer: “The greater part of the book is devoted to the coloration of glass, both to imitate gemstones and for the use of enamellers.” Edition quoted by Crusca, see Camerini.

Stima 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

Lotto 15 - CALLOT. Vue du Ponte Neuf. - Engraving of 165x335 mm. Glued on cardboard. Signed in the lower right “Callot fec.”. State II/V. Good specimen. Spectacular large view of Paris, drawn by Callot during his stay in Paris in 1628-1630 and engraved after his return to Nancy. In this engraving, Jacques Callot depicts a view of the capital centred on the Pont neuf. He shows the daily life of Parisians in the 17th century. Thus, the Seine has a central place in the supply of the city and its trade. This engraving is worn as a witness of the life in the XVIIth century. Lieure: «Pour les deux vues de Paris, les deux premiers etats sont les plus beaux et le plus recherchés.» Lieure 668.

Stima 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lotto 16 - CALLOT. La Carriere de Nancy. - Engraving of 169x514 in state II/II, on the lower part the written: “Israel Siluestre excudit Parisij Cum Privilegio Regis”. Good specimen. Magnificent engraving. A view of a carnival during the early 1600s in Callot's hometown of Nancy. Callot depicts one of the great squares of the city, animated by a party with acrobats, swordsmen who compete, comedians of the Italian Comedy, a procession of knights followed by a chariot, an allegory of Love.The sides of the square are defined by elegant houses, the background by the ducal palace, while the feast of the carnival is celebrated. At the top stands the emblem of Lorraine and a weather vane with written: “Les Ioustes et Tournois, Combats et aues ieux de recreation”. Lieure 589

Stima 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lotto 17 - CALLOT. Vue du Louvre. - Engraving of 166x338 mm. In the lower left. «Callot fec». State II/V. Good specimen. Spectacular large view of Paris, drawn by Callot during his stay in Paris in 1628-1630 and engraved after his return to Nancy. Foreground of the Seine with a nautical party. On the left the Tower de Nesle, on the right the Petit Bourbon which hosted Callot and his friend and publisher Israel Henriet and further on the Louvre gallery. Lieure: «Pour les deux vues de Paris, les deux premiers etats sont les plus beaux et le plus recherchés.»

Stima 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lotto 18 - TIEPOLO. Il martirio di Sant’Agata. - Etching, 441x250 mm. Margins. State II/III. Good condition. Rizzi, n. 130: “L’opera originale, databile secondo il Morassi nel 1745-50, e secondo la Pallucchini nel ’50, è conservata negli Staatliche Museen di Berlino. Essa manca però della parte superiore centinata che si vede in quest’incisione. Uno studio preparatorio della figura del sicario, in senso inverso a quello della stampa, è stato presentato alla “Sala delle stagioni” di Pisa nel 1970 con l’attribuzione a Giambattista”.

Stima 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lotto 19 - TIEPOLO. Il Merito incorona la Virtù. - Etching and burin. 390x199 mm. Margins. State I/II. In the lower margin: Jo:s Dominicus Tiepolo pinxit et fecit. Good condition. Beautiful plate datable to 1749-50. The inscription at the bottom indicates beyond doubt that Giandomenico himself was the author of the corresponding painting, almost certainly executed for the Ca' Barbaro.

Stima 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Lotto 20 - CANALETTO. Il Mercato sul molo. - Etching, 207x142 mm. Margin. State IV/IV. Good condition. Part of the splendid series of 31 views that Canaletto engraved between 1740 and 1746.Succi: "Lo splendido brano di vita veneziana, sentito con trepida partecipazione dall’artista, si dipana sotto un cielo chiarissimo la cui luminosità par quasi penetrare gli edifici e la pittoresca folla".

Stima 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lotto 21 - CANALETTO. Le Procuratie Nuove e San Giminiano. - Etching, 209x143 mm. Small margins. Bottom centre: 'Le Procuratie niove e S. Ziminian V'. Bottom left: 'A. Canal f'. State I/II. Good condition. It is part of the splendid series of 31 views that Canaletto engraved between 1740 and 1746.Succi: “L’occhio dell’artista si sofferma attentamente sugli elementi architettonici, accuratamente ripresi e sulla pittoresca folla che anima la piazza”.

Stima 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lotto 22 - CANALETTO. La Libreria. - Etching, 205x142 mm. Small margins. Bottom centre: 'La Libreria V'. Bottom left: 'A. Canal f'. State II/IV. Good condition. Part of the splendid series of 31 views that Canaletto engraved between 1740 and 1746. Succi: “Il primo stato reca la scritta erronea La Ceca V., che venne cancellata dall’artista e sostituita con l’indicazione corretta. Il terzo stato è privo di titolo”.

Stima 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lotto 23 - CANALETTO. Le Prigioni. - Etching, 208x141 mm. Margin. Bottom left: 'A. Canal f'. State III/III. Good condition. Part of the splendid series of 31 views that Canaletto engraved between 1740 and 1746.Succi: “La veduta è descritta dal Canaletto con puntigliosa precisione fin nei minimi dettagli”.

Stima 3 000 - 4 000 EUR

Lotto 24 - Da PIAZZETTA. Quattro Teste. - Etchings, 230x150 mm. Good conditions, wide margins. A beautiful series of portraits from drawings by G.B. Piazzetta engraved in the 18th century by the talented German artist Franz-Xavier Jungwierth, born in Munich around 1720.The drawings by the distinguished Venetian painter are admirably reproduced here. With light and precise brushwork, he succeeds in capturing with great expressiveness and effectiveness the 'character' of the characters that are the objects of his famous 'studies'.

Stima 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 25 - Da PIAZZETTA. Quattro Teste. - Etchings, 230x150 mm. Good condition, wide margins. A beautiful series of portraits from drawings by G.B. Piazzetta engraved in the 18th century by the talented German artist Franz-Xavier Jungwierth, born in Munich around 1720.The drawings by the distinguished Venetian painter are admirably reproduced here. With light and precise brushwork, he succeeds in capturing with great expressiveness and effectiveness the 'character' of the characters that are the objects of his famous 'studies'.

Stima 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 26 - PIAZZETTA. Studi di pittura già disegnati da Giambattista Piazzetta. - Oblong folio, Contemporary quarter leather binding and marbled boards; gilt titles and ornaments on the spine. Pictorial frontispiece at full page, title page in red and black with vignette, 2 leaf of dedication to Carlo Conte Signore de Firmian ;1 leaf of preface, 3 leaves of memory on Piazzetta with portrait, 1 leaf with subscriber’s list; 12 text leaves and 48 beautiful plates. Fine and fresh specimen. Extremely rare first edition, first issue published in only 107 copies intended for subscribers on immaculate strong paper. The splendid tables are engraved with a line and a burin by Francesco Bortolozzi and Marco Pitteri. the text is adorned with a large beautiful headboard, historiated initials, a endpiece is the self-portrait of Piazzetta, the only engraving ever performed by the artist, signed and dated 1738.

Stima 6 000 - 8 000 EUR

Lotto 27 - PIAZZETTA – PITTERI. I Dodici Apostoli. - Series of twelve prints. Burin engravings on laid paper. 430x325 mm. ca. All of them in ancient frame. The engravings are signed on platemark.On left below: “Ioannes Bapta. Piazzetta pinxit”; on the right: “Marcus Pitteri sculpsit”.Under: latin title / “Venetiis cum privilegio Excellentiss. Senatus”. The plates are:1. “Sanctus Petrus”. Wiel 112. “Sanctus Andreas”. Wiel 123. “Sanctus Jacobus Maior”. Wiel 134. “Sanctus Joannes”. Wiel 145. “Sanctus Thomas”. Wiel 156. “Sanctus Jacobus Minor”. Wiel 167. “Sanctus Philippus”. Wiel 178. “Sanctus Bartholomaeus”. Wiel 189. “Sanctus Matthaeus”. Wiel 1910. “Sanctus Simeon”. Wiel 2011. “Sanctus Thaddaeus”. Wiel 2112. “Sanctus Mathias”. Wiel 22 Engraving masterpiece of the Venetian eighteenth century, from the masterful drawings of Piazzetta. Superb and rare complete collection of this prestigious series, in antique frames.Succi: “Queste stampe sono fra le più apprezzate del Pitteri … Questi magistrali bulini del quinto decennio del Settecento … evidenziano lo sforzo compiuto dal Pitteri verso la realizzazione del suo ideale di incisione pittorica, capace di una resa vibrante e appassionata delle peculiari qualità di luminosità radente e di poderoso risalto chiaroscurale dei modelli piazzetteschi … Pitteri, vieppiù affinando la propria tecnica, riuscì ad interpretare i modelli del Piazzetta con esiti di eccezionale vivacità e di sfolgorante orchestrazione chiaroscurale.” Wiel: “Dal punto di vista stilistico gli Apostoli segnano un decisivo progresso nella tecnica del Pitteri […] Gli Apostoli del Pitteri riscossero grande successo …”.

Stima 8 000 - 10 000 EUR

Lotto 28 - Rome. PIRANESI. Veduta del Porto di Ripetta. - Opera giovanile del Piranesi che appena arrivato a Roma, lavorò nella bottega di Giuseppe Vasi. Veduta del porto di Ripetta sulle sponde del Tevere. Sono raffigurate le chiese di San Rocco, S. Girolamo de Schiavoni e il palazzo Borghese. Tratta da “Varie Vedute di Roma Antica, e Moderna”.

Stima 500 - 600 EUR

Lotto 29 - PIRANESI. Veduta del Porto di Ripetta. - Etching, 590x370 mm. Wide margins. State IV/VIII. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Stima 1 600 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 30 - PIRANESI. Veduta del porto di Ripa Grande. - Etching, 615x382 mm. Wide margins. State II/VI. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Stima 1 600 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 31 - RICCI. Paesaggio con contadini e boscaioli. - In questa bellissima acquaforte colpisce il vivido contrasto tra le zone in penombra e dalla brillante intensità della luce che colpisce le fronde degli alberi.Succi, 426.

Stima 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lotto 32 - RICCI. L’Apparizione dell’orso. - In questa bella acquaforte, i veri protagonisti sono gli alberi, che con i loro tronchi possenti partecipano alla concitazione della scena: un orso è appena sbucato dal bosco, facendo fuggire impauriti 3 personaggi.Succi, 415.

Stima 1 200 - 1 400 EUR

Lotto 33 - RICCI. Villaggio con traghetto sul fiume. - Splendida acquaforte in cui vi è una prevalenza di chiari e di scuri in cui le strutture architettoniche rendono più netti i contrasti, rendendo queste strutture più volumetriche, simbolo di una grande consapevolezza artistica.Succi, 423.

Stima 1 200 - 1 400 EUR

Lotto 34 - Venice. CHILONE - ALIPRANDI. Album di Venezia in XXII Tavole. - Bella seria di vedute veneziane disegnate dal Chilone e incise in rame da Giacomo Aliprandi con i luoghi e i monumenti più importanti di Venezia, animate con barche, gondole e personaggi nei costumi dell’epoca. Le tavole recano al piede il titolo in quattro lingue, italiano, inglese, francese e tedesco, poiché si trattava di un album pensato propriamente per il “Grand Tour”, il viaggio in Italia che rappresentava quasi un obbligo per l’europeo colto dell’ottocento.

Stima 1 800 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 35 - ZUCCARELLI – SIMONINI. Scena di battaglia a cavallo. - Battle scene on horseback.Venice, Wagner, before 1752 Etching and burin with trace of coloring. Platemark 261x378 mm. Inscriptions on the lower margin: in the center “Guerrier vago d'onor morte non teme”; on the left “Franc. Simonini inven.”; to the right “Zuccarelli Sculp. Appo Wagner Venezia C.P.E.S.” Print in antique frame with original glass. Fine specimen. Beautiful proof, with traces of contemporary coloring, in blue tones for the horses and in orange tones for the fortifications in the background. Scene derived from Francesco Simonini, the famous eighteenth-century "battaglista" who renewed the genre. Succi: " Con linguaggio disinvolto e pittoresco Zuccarelli fissa la foga marziale dei combattenti nelle tonalità argentine della competizione, di gusto tipicamente veneto pdf freschezza inventiva e per leggerezza d’intaglio.” [With casual and picturesque language Zuccarelli fixes the martial ardor of the fighters in the silvery tones of the competition, with a typically Venetian taste for inventive freshness and lightness of carving.] The date comes from Zuccarelli's collaboration with Wagner, which ended in 1752 when the Venetian artist went to London, where he remained for a decade

Stima 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Lotto 36 - BASSETTI. River Deities. Drawing. - BASSETTI, Marcantonio. River Deities. Drawing. 1586 – 1630 Sheet mm. 88x144. Watercolor drawing in pen, brush and sepia ink, with touches of white lead. The drawing is pasted on cardboard with a gold frame. Good condition. Gorgeous drawing with animated mythological scene. Marcantonio Bassetti, born in Verona, was trained in the workshop of Felice Brusasorci and after 1605 he moved to Venice where he completed his training and became a friend of Palma il Giovane. Between 1615 and 1620 he was in Rome with his Veronese colleagues Turchi and Ottino. According to Ridolfi, he had a special gift for drawing. Of his stay in Venice he says: "He stayed there for some time, copying the most excellent paintings of Tintoretto, nor was there a young person in his time who would more accurately report them in drawings such as the touch of white and black oil on the paper. . In this way many still see some of his inventions ... "In 1616 Marcantonio wrote from Rome to Jacopo Palma informing him that he had given life to a Venetian Academy," drawing the attitudes with brushes and colors "and showing" that when you draw you paint again ".

Stima 5 000 - 5 500 EUR

Lotto 37 - Woodblock printing. PAPILLON. Traite historique et pratique de la gravure en bois. - 2 volumes in 4to. 205x135 mm. Contemporary quarter calf binding, richly gilt spines with 3 labels. Pages [7], VI-XXXII, 540; XV, [1], 388; [4], 124. With woodcut-portrait, 5 plates on chiaroscuro printing and numerous (24 full-page) woodcuts and vignettes within the text. Ink marginalia. Small hole to p. 535-540 of 1st vol. with loss of pagination, tear to leaf i8 and ink-stain to outer margin of p. 154 and on the opposing plate in 2nd vol. Defects on the bindings, some browning and foxing, occasional stains. First complete edition. Classic work on woodblock printing, including a history, a technical manual and a supplement with glossary. The dating of the third volume with the supplement comes from a marriage speech of June 13, 1768, on page 97.Royal Academy of Arts: “The frontispiece portrait in Volume I is signed as drawn by J. Bap. Noel Gamot junior and engraved and drawn by Caron. The plates are unsigned. The title-page vignette of Volume I and several other in-text decorations are signed as designed and engraved by Papillon. … The publication date of 1766 is given on the three title pages, but the third volume contains a 'Discours Nuptial ... 1768'. … The frontispiece of Volume I shows a portrait of J. Baptiste Michel Papillon. The plate in Volume I, showing St Andrew, is a chiaroscuro woodcut; and the five plates in Volume II, showing a draped figure carrying a book, are an unusual series of prints from five variant chiaroscuro woodcuts, which would be used in succession to compose one final image. In-text illustrations show technical aspects of wood-engraving. The whole book is copiously decorated with examples of the vignettes, headpieces and tailpieces for which Papillon is now best known. Papillon was indeed so much in demand for this type of decorative wood-engraving and spent so much time at it that he wore out his own eyesight and was suspected by his wife of infidelity.”

Stima 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

Lotto 38 - CARPIONI. Prophet. Sketch by Tintoretto. Drawings. - CARPIONI, Giulio. Prophet. Sketch by Tintoretto. Drawings.1613 - 1678 Two drawings on a sheet of mm. 264x112. Sanguine with a brush. Ivory-colored laid paper with very slight diffused foxing. Signed Carpioni. Good condition. Two drawings with characters outlined with great confidence. On the reverse an imposing prophet with watercolor that highlights the drapery of the robe; on the front a quick sketch in sanguine pencil, a study of a work by Tintoretto. Giulio Carpioni, Venice was a pupil of Padovanino who followed in Bergamo in 1631. Certainly precious for his training were the Veronese experiences of Turchi, Bassetti, Ottino, and also the style of Poussin learned through the engravings of Pietro Testa, examples by Fialetti and Simone Cantarini. Since 1636 he is documented in Vicenza where he will reside almost continuously, until his death. In the seventeenth century in Vicenza, Carpioni's style contrasted with the baroque style of Francesco Maffei: works by him appear in the museums of Vienna and Budapest, Bordeaux, Dijon, Florence, Padua, Ancona and Dresden.

Stima 1 800 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 39 - PIRANESI. Prospettiva della Nuova Piazza in Padova. - Etching, 1550x600 mm. Margins. I/III state. Drawn by Giuseppe Subleyras. Brownings and small defects..

Stima 5 000 - 6 000 EUR

Lotto 40 - PIRANESI. Veduta dell’Arco di Costantino. - Etching, 705x470 mm. Wide margins. State I/III. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition. Superb representation of the Arch of Constantine, with the monument still partly buried and depicted with the typical abundance of structural and decorative details typical of Piranesi.

Stima 1 600 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 41 - PIRANESI. Veduta dell’Arco di Tito. - Etching, 710x470 mm. Wide margins. State I/IV. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Stima 1 600 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 42 - PIRANESI. Veduta dell’Arco di Settimio Severo. - Etching, 700x465 mm. Wide margins. State I/III. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Stima 1 600 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 43 - PIRANESI. Tempio detto Volgarmente di Giano. - Etching, 700x465 mm. Wide margins. State I/IV. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Stima 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 44 - JACKSON. Nettuno. - Chiaroscuro, 580x390 mm. Margins. At foot of pedestal: "Ex prototypo Aereo Joannis Bolonia Duacensis in Museo D. Josephi Smith Venetiis...". Glued sheet on antique cloth. Good condition. Arrived in Venice in 1731, the Englishman J.B. Jackson received the encouragement of A.M. Zanetti for his engraving work and in 1738 he engraved in chiaroscuro for Consul Smith this Neptune by Giambologna, from a copper sculpture in the Consul's private collection. After this fine proof, the collector and patron Smith proposed to the artist to engrave in chiaroscuro some of the paintings of major Venetian artists.

Stima 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lotto 45 - FALDA – BERNINI. Veduta del Castello, e Ponte Sant'Angelo… Disegno del Cav. Gio. Lorenzo Bernini. - Etching on laid paper. Image 690x460mm. Margins. Inscriptions: in the bottom left image “Io. Battista Falda dell. et sculpsit 1671”; under the image, the title “Veduta del Castello, e Ponte Sant'Angelo, abbellito, et adornato con le statue degli angeli da Papa Clemente IX. Disegno del Cav. Gio. Lorenzo Bernini”. Small abrasion in the lower right corner, which does not affect the image; homogeneous browning and minor defects, overall in good condition. Splendid impression of this beautiful view of the celebration held on the occasion of Pope Clement X's taking possession of the recently completed Sant'Angelo bridge and the restored Sant'Angelo Castle. The print offers the perspective of the bridge adorned with the famous statues that Bernini and his workshop created, a magnificent work completed in 1669 when Pope Clement IX died. The statue in the right row, the "Angel with the Cross", a masterpiece by Ercole Ferrata, was completed only in 1670 and the following year the bridge was formally inaugurated. In the foreground, the ‘sedia gestatoria ‘ holding Pope Clement X followed by his College of Cardinals. Bernini executed the drawing and entrusted the engraving to Giovanni Battista Falda, the most successful architectural engraver in Rome.

Stima 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Lotto 46 - FALDA - BERNINI - DE ROSSI. La Basilica Vaticana. - Large sheet, etching, mm. 480x623, wide margins. At the bottom the title, device, with date and caption and dedication. At the bottom right the signature of the publisher "Gio. Battista Falda dis. et fece” on the left “Architettura del Cavalier Gio. Lorenzo Bernino”. Very well printed on stiff paper, watermark with double circle and lily, slight repaired marginal tears, marinal loss, good specimen. Beautiful and rare engraving about 1680. It depicts Piazza San Pietro in the Vatican, without pavement, that is to say without Bernini's sampietrini, positioned on the Piazza only in 1725. Engraved by Giovanni Battista Falda engraver very well known in Rome for very many drawings and engravings of his churches, gardens, of fountains and public buildings, executed with a great knowledge of perspective and rich in many characters.

Stima 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lotto 47 - Armorial binding with the coat of arms of Marie Leszczynska. L'Office de la Semaine Sainte, en latin et en françois. - In-8vo. 200x130 mm. Red morocco binding, Marie Leszczynska's coat of arms in the center of the covers, framed by gilt rules with fleurons at the corners, five-ribbs spine with title, gilt ornaments and lily flowers in the sections, gilt roulette on the edges of the covers, gilt edges. In the volume, 2 plates engraved o.t., one by Rubens. Copy in magnificent binding to the Arms of Marie Leszczynska, 1703-1768, dedicatee of the work, queen of France by marriage to Louis XV.

Stima 1 400 - 1 600 EUR

Lotto 48 - CALLOT. Les Bohémiens. Complete series of four engravings. - The Gypsies. Complete series of four engravings. First half of the 17th century Etchings and burin. Each one about 120x240 mm. Without margins, as Lieure indicates. State II/II. Each composition with slight framing line. At the bottom left, above the framing line, the writing “Callot” is engraved. Top left, in each engraving, two descriptive verses. Track numbering 1-4, top right.The four plates are in order: - Les Bohémiens en Marche: L'Arrière-Garde, pièce aussi appelée Le Départ. Bottom left, above the framing line “Callot”.- Les Bohémiens en Marche: L'Arrière-Garde, pièce aussi appelée L’Avant-Garde. Bottom left, above the framing line "Callot"- La Halte des Bohemias: les diseuse de bonne-aventure. Bottom left, above the framing line “Callot f”.- La halte des Bohemias: les apprets du festin. Bottom left, above the framing line “Callot” Magnificent complete set of the 'Bohemiens' in rare second state. Lieure: “Les Bohémiens, serie appelee aussi Les Egyptiens, La Marche des Bohemiens, La Vie errante des Bohemiens, Les marches Egyptienne. Suite de quatre pieces, une de plus connues et des plus recherchees de l’oeuve de Callot. Le maitre a traité admirabilment un suiet cher a sono cœur d’artiste. Ce sont ces bohémiens qui l’ont adopté lorsque tout enfant il s’est enfui de la maison paternelle pour aller vers le pays de l’art, ce sont eux qui l’ont conduit en Italie, c’est à eux qu’il doit la première vision des chefs-d’œuvre de tous genres sous le ciel lumineux de Florence.” [The Gypsies, series also called The Egyptians, The March of the Gypsies, The Wandering Life of the Gypsies, The Egyptian Markets. Suite of four pieces, one of the best known and most sought after of Callot's work. The master has treated admirably a subject dear to his heart as an artist. It was these bohemians who adopted him when he ran away from his father's house as a child to go to the land of art, they were the ones who took him to Italy, it was to them that he owes the first viewing of masterpieces of all genres under the luminous skies of Florence.]

Stima 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lotto 49 - CALLOT. La chasse aux oiseaux. - Bird hunting.XVII century Etching and burin.mm. 112 x 245. State 2/2. Bottom right: 'Callot in. f. Israel ex. cum privilege Regis'. Composition framed by a thin line. Laid paper. Good specimen. Three hunting scenes appear in a grandiose landscape view. On the left, a hunter shoots ducks; in the centre, three men stretch the net for the fowl; to the right, two hunters with falcons, on horseback, accompanied by footmen leading dogs on leashes.

Stima 500 - 600 EUR

Lotto 50 - CALLOT. Le retour de la chasse. - The return of the hunt. XVII century Etching and burin. 112x245mm. Small margins. State 2/3. Bottom left: 'Callot in. f. Israel ex. cum privilege Regis'. Composition framed by a thin line. Laid paper. Good specimen. Callot represents a grandiose landscape, with two hills, houses. a stream in the center crossed by a bridge, a fisherman. On a trail to the left, a mounted hunter, his falcon at his wrist, comes from hunting. Near him is the footman with two dogs. In the background, on the left, a shepherd can be seen with his flock.

Stima 600 - 800 EUR

Lotto 51 - PIRANESI. Veduta del Palazzo fabbricato sul Quirinale per le Segreterie de Brevi et della Sacra Consulta. - Etching, 615x380 mm. Wide margins. State II/VI. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition. Piranesi represents the "Palazzo della Consulta", a palace designed by Ferdinando Fuga for Pope Clement XII to house the papal secretariat of the principal council of state, the Sacra Congregazione della Consulta. After various functions over the centuries, it has been home to the Constitutional Court of the Italian Republic since 1955. The top of the facade is dominated by the large sculptural coat of arms of the Corsini family of Clement XII.

Stima 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 52 - PIRANESI. Veduta del Palazzo Odescalchi. - Etching, 615x382 mm. Wide margins. State II/VI. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition. The Odescalchi Palace, originally owned by the Colonna family, was sold in 1661 to Cardinal Fabio Chigi (the future Pope Alexander VII), who commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to renovate it. In the 1640s, the Chigi palace was purchased by Prince Baldassare Odescalchi, who commissioned Nicola Salvi and Luigi Vanvitelli to once again enlarge the facade to the appearance we see here.

Stima 1 500 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 53 - Rome. PIRANESI. Veduta dell’arco di Tito. - Splendida incisione tratta dall’opera “Le Antichità romane”. Roma, Bouchard, 1756.

Stima 500 - 600 EUR

Lotto 54 - PIRANESI. Vedute di Roma disegnate ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Veneziano. - Etching, 540x400 mm. Wide margins. State III/V. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition. It was with the creation of this plate that the great enterprise of the "Vedute di Roma", which would occupy Piranesi for the rest of his life, began. It is probably not by chance that he drew and engraved the title of what was to become his most famous work on a large block of stone as if to signify the laying of a 'milestone' in his career as an artist, in which his training, represented by the term 'architetto', and his never-forgotten origin, represented by the term 'veneziano', take on great value.

Stima 1 200 - 1 600 EUR

Lotto 55 - Binding. Missae in agenda defunctorum tantum deservientes, ex Missali Romano... - Nessuna descrizione

Stima 200 - 300 EUR

Lotto 56 - Binding. Missae in agenda defunctorum ad Celebrantium Comoditatem. - Nessuna descrizione

Stima 200 - 300 EUR

Lotto 57 - Binding. RADIGUET – DOLLIAN. Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel. - 8vo. 227x156 mm. Midnight blue morocco binding by J.A. Legrain, smooth spine decorated with a gilt vertical rules, covers with impressed rectangular recess and gilt semicircles surrounding blind-tooled squares, gilt internal roulette, black morocco inlays framing the composition, dove-grey moiré fabric lining, double endpapers, untrimmed, slipcase. Pages 225, (2). Woodcut initials and culs-de-lamp designed and engraved by Guy Dollian. Good condition. Luxurious second edition, first illustrated edition, with woodcuts by Guy Dollian. Copy in magnificent Art Deco binding by Jacques-Antoine Legrain.

Stima 2 500 - 3 000 EUR

Lotto 58 - GUARDI. Battle of knights. Drawing. - GUARDI, Gian Antonio. Battle of knights. Drawing.1699 - 1760 Sheet mm. 192x280. Watercolor drawing with brush and sepia ink on beige laid paper. Top right stamp from the Alfredo Viggiano collection. Skillful restorations, reinforced sheet. Beautiful watercolor inspired by a painting by Giuseppe Maria Crespi, known as Lo Spagnoletto. Provenance: Alfredo Viggiano Collection, collection stamp with letters AV in a box. Lugt: “A. Viggiano, 1884-1948, doctor of medicine, Venice. Doctor Alfredo Viggiano, a passionate collector of works of art, paintings, sculptures and above all ancient drawings, born in Torraca, Salerno, was a doctor of medicine from 1908. He owned more than 300 drawings, for the most part of the Italian school, from all eras and collected since 1928 ... The stamp is usually found on the bottom right, sometimes top left, sometimes still, so as not to ruin the design , on the reverse. " Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, 191a. Proveniance: stamp from the Alfredo Viggiano collection.

Stima 10 000 - 12 000 EUR

Lotto 59 - Engravings of the months of the XVIII century. BARTOLOZZI. I Dodici Mesi. - 12 Etchings and burin engravings; 330 x 460 mm. Below, in the middle, the name of the month, to left and to right the names of G. Zocchi, F. Bartolozzi e J. Wagner, and down to the right the numbers 1-12. Good condition. Very rare series of Francesco Bartolozzi's months of the year. Derived from the paintings by Giuseppe Zocchi, the series is part of the most vivid Venetian production of Bartolozzi: by combining the bulin with the watercolor, according to the method introduced in Venice by Wagner, the artist has effects of soft and refined chiaroscuro graduation manages to maintain a genuine freshness in the popular and agresti episodes that illustrate the twelve branches. In the festive costume scenes depicted, human figures have predominant importance and are framed by leafy trees and picturesque architectures. Giuseppe Zocchi carried out a long business in Venice: in these subjects he feels the influence he exerts on him by Marco Ricci, Giuseppe Zais, Francesco Zuccarelli and also Pietro Longhi. Succi, 1983, n. 11-22; Barbara Jatta, Francesco Bartolozzi Incisore delle Grazie, 1996, pp. 91-93.

Stima 7 500 - 8 500 EUR

Lotto 60 - CALLOT. Les baigneurs. - The Bathers.XVII century Etching and burin. 115x245mm. Small margins. Status 2/3. Bottom left: 'Callot in. f. - Israel ex. cum privilege Regis'. Composition framed by a thin line. A very animated festive scene. A large number of men bathe in a river above the dam of a mill with two monumental arches: some swim in the water, others undress on the bank. Through the two arches the river can be seen passing under a bridge; in the background a city at the foot of a hill.

Stima 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lotto 61 - CALLOT. Saint Amond. - Saint Amond.XVII century Etching and burin. 195x275mm. On laid paper, trimmed on the plate mark. State 3/5. Bottom left “Ia. Callot f.” Dramatic depiction of St. Amond, second Bishop of Toul, preaching in the forest. in the midst of large trees, the saint, with a bishop's miter, is standing, facing; he preaches holding the crozier in his left hand, while with his right hand he blesses the faithful scattered around him. At the back, to the right, is the opening to my underground cave, where he lived as a hermit.

Stima 600 - 800 EUR

Lotto 62 - CALLOT. La foire de Gondreville. - The Gondreville Fair.XVII century Etching and burin. 180x320mm. Trimmed on the plate mark. State 2/4. Bottom left 'Ia. Callot fe. Nanceij.' Magnificent representation of a village fair, known as the Gondreville fair. Under a majestic oak tree there are several characters. On the right some men in feathered hats are playing bowls. Behind them, a man and a rooster are resting on a plow and a gentleman is walking with a woman. In the center we see many people, mostly seen from behind, who are talking, greeting each other or walking around; further on others are dancing in a circle accompanied by the music of a trumpet and a drum coming from two musicians sitting on a branch of the tree. On the left, a young girl carries a large flowering branch with her; further to the left some villagers draw water from the well, near the house behind them some drinkers are seated around a table. In the background houses just mentioned.Lieure entitles the engraving : La Fiore de Gondreville pièce appelée aussi La Fête du Village, La Petite Foire, Le Bal Champêtre, Le Jeu de Boules (The Fair at Gondreville also called The Village Festival, The Little Fair, The Country Dance, The Game of Bowls).

Stima 800 - 1 200 EUR

Lotto 63 - CALLOT - COLLIGNON. Veduta di Roma. - View of Rome.XVII century Etching and burin. 102x250mm. Small margins. Laid paper. Composition framed by a thin line. Bottom left: 'Israel ex. cum privil. Regis'. Good specimen. Magnificent general view of Rome. In the background the Roman countryside; to the right, a very high wall, the bastion of Castel Sant'Angelo, surmounted by a sentry box under which is the Pope's coat of arms; near the sentry box, there is a soldier looking over the wall. At the back of this wall are seated two men and, towards the centre, two other smaller ones, who are also seated. A little further to the left, and in the background, we see a church with a quadrangular bell tower surmounted by a dome; is the church of San Girolamo. Finally, on the far left, there is a building, pierced by numerous windows, above which appear the two bell towers of the Church of the Trinità del Monte. In between various houses and trees.The engraving has been attributed, by Faucheux, to J.B. Collignon, a pupil of Callot, based on a design by Silvestre. The British Museum, however, attributes the engraving to Callot: «This plate was published as part of Callot's set of 12 landscapes made in Florence (Lieure 268-277). The series is problematic: see comment on 1861,0713.1318. Mariette and Meaume both attribute the execution of the set to Collignon, and the design of the present plate to Silvestre.» According to Faucheux, it is part of Sylvestre's suite ‘Diverses vues de Rome et des environs’.

Stima 400 - 600 EUR

Lotto 64 - Rome. WAGNER. Roma. - Rara incisione che raffigura il panorama della città di Roma sul quale campeggia uno stemma con la scritta SPQR che squarcia le nubi. In basso 12 didascalie esplicative. Facilmente riconoscibili San Pietro e Castel Sant’Angelo, mentre in lontananza si stagliano alberi e colline. L’incisione è stata realizzata prima del 1694, anno di morte del Wagner. C. Marigliani, “Le Piante di Roma nelle collezioni private”, p. 198, tav. 103.

Stima 400 - 500 EUR

Lotto 65 - Milestone of Roman Carthography. NOLLI. Nuova pianta di Roma data in luce da Giambattista Nolli l'anno M DCC XLVIII. - Imperial Folio. 478x365 mm. XIXth century quarter calf binding, gilt title and rules on spine, marbled insidecovers. The work is entirely engraved on copper so composed: a sheet with the title, “La topografia di Roma” on double page, “Urbis Ichonographia a Leonardo Bufalino” on double page; a sheet with “Avviso al Lettore”, 4 sheets with “Indice de Numeri della Pianta”, 12 plates on double page with cartographic sections “La nuova topografia di Roma”, 4 sheets with “Indice alfabetico della Pianta”. After the sheet of “Avviso al Lettore”, the sheets are numbered 1-32: Index (pp. 1-4), 12 cartographic sections on double pages (pp. 5-28), index on single page (pp. 29-32).After the sheet with the title is added a plate in two sheets of 350x335 and 350x255 mm: “Panorama de Rome, pris du clocher du Capitole”. In the first the circular view of Rome seen from the bell tower of the Senatorial Palace on the Capitoline Hill, with 191 buildings, in the second the legend with 187 toponyms; copper engraving, laid paper, trace of watermark. On the free end-paper the ex-libris “Comte Fernand de Rességuier”. Some leaves shorter. Defects on the binding, marginal foxing internally and some traces of humidity, overall a good copy. Rare first edition. Giovanni Battista Nolli's "Nuova pianta di Roma", created between 1736 and 1748, is considered a milestone in the art and science of cartography for the accuracy with which it records the dense urban fabric of Rome at the height of its eighteenth-century beauty: streets, squares, public spaces, villas, vineyards, monasteries and ancient ruins. In short, almost eight square miles of land exquisitely engraved on twelve copper plates and with the indexing of 1320 sites.The work was commissioned by Pope Benedict XIV to survey Rome and help to create the demarcations of the fourteen (14) traditional districts of Rome. It is by far the most accurate description of Rome produced up to that time, at a time when the architectural achievements of the papacy were in full development. Nolli's map reflects Bufalini's 1551 map, however Nolli made a number of important innovations. First, Nolli reorients the city from east (as was conventional at the time) to magnetic north, reflecting the fact that Nolli relies on the compass to orient himself in the city's topography. Second, Nolli represents closed public spaces such as the colonnades of St. Peter's Square and the Pantheon as open civic spaces. Finally, the map represented a significant improvement in terms of accuracy, even detecting the asymmetry of the Spanish Square. The map was used in government planning of the city of Rome until the 1970s; it was used as a base map for all Roman cartography and planning up to that date.This copy contains in addition to Nolli's work:“The topography of Rome” on a double page engraved by Nolli in 1748;“Urbis Ichnographiam a Leonardo Bufalino”, the map of ancient Rome by Leonardo Bufalini, originally engraved in 1551, reworked and reduced by G.B. Nolli in 1748;“Panorama de Rome, pris du Clocher du Capitole”, copper engraving by an anonymous artist from around 1750. An unusual circular panoramic view of Rome seen from the bell tower of the Palazzo Senatorio on the Capitoline Hill. 191 buildings from across Rome are depicted as they would be seen from the bell tower, including parts of the Palazzo Senatorio and the Piazza del Campidoglio, which are the largest illustrations on the right side of the circle. Basilicas, cathedrals and churches appear alongside ancient ruins, including the Colosseum (143), Trajan's Column (99), St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican. The legend of the toponyms was cut out and glued onto another sheet and contains 187 toponyms.Luigi Ficacci 22, John Wilton-Ely 1007 (1095-5), Millard Architectural Collection, Italian and Spanish Books, p. 234-239.For the 'Panorama': this very rare view was created by an unknown artist and published around 1750, probably for travelers on the "Grand Tour". Three copies in OCLC: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Utrecht University and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. A specimen also in the Library of Congress.

Stima 15 000 - 18 000 EUR

Lotto 66 - MALTA. Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller. Fr. Pietro di Cornigliano XXVIII Gran Maestro. - Copperplate engraving measuring 310x215 mm. Some slight marginal stains. Good condition. Very rare depiction within an oval of the twenty-eighth Grand Master of the Order of Malta.Pierre de Corneillan was Grand Prior of Saint-Gilles and Grand Master of the Order of Malta in Rhodes from 1353 to 1355.De Corneillan spent much of his short period of rule (18 months) valiantly resisting the intentions of Pope Innocent VI, who had attempted to move the seat of the Order from Rhodes to a location closer to Palestine and the Mamluk possessions.

Stima 400 - 500 EUR

Lotto 67 - GIAMPICCOLI – RICCI. Borgo fortificato e due pescatori. - Sullo sfondo di un borgo arroccato su di una lieve collina, due pescatori ed un pastore con due bovini sono collocati sulle opposte sponde di un corso d'acqua, in primo piano.La seconda edizione, a cura di Teodoro Viero, è datata al 1775 e si arricchisce di 12 paesaggi e 2 ulteriori frontespizi, realizzati da Giampiccoli e Tiepolo sempre, verosimilmente, ante 1735 ma rimasti inediti per circa un quarantennio, portando il numero dei paesaggi da 36 a 48 ed il numero complessivo delle incisioni a 52, suddivise in quattro serie da 12 tavole ciascuna ad ognuna delle quali è premesso un frontespizio, numerate "I", "II", "III", "IV" ed i numeri dall'1 al 12.

Stima 700 - 800 EUR

Lotto 68 - GIAMPICCOLI – RICCI. Cortile rustico. - Nessuna descrizione

Stima 600 - 700 EUR

Lotto 69 - Albrecht DÜRER. Saint Eustace. - Nineteenth-century copy of the original engraved by the Durer of 1508. One of the most famous and famous works that attracts much for the landscape and the depicted animals. Space and light achieve a perfect balance between static and dynamic and all the pictorial effects are obtained with strictly graphic means. St. Eustace, Trajan's official, according to tradition, converted to Christianity for having seen at a hunt, a deer holding a cross in its horns.

Stima 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lotto 70 - Albrecht DÜRER. The Kidnapping of Proserpina. - Nineteenth-century copy of the original engraved by the Durer of 1516.Splendid engraving one of the most representative of the brilliant graphic work of Durer. The engraving represents a naked man while he is riding a unicorn holding a naked young woman. The monogram dated in the upper right corner is inside a cloud. The engraving refers to the Greek and Latin myths.

Stima 1 500 - 1 800 EUR

Lotto 71 - LIBERI. Venus, nymphs and putti. Eternal Father with little angels. Drawings. - LIBERI, Pietro. Venus, nymphs and putti. Eternal Father with little angels. Drawings.1605 - 1687 Two drawings on a sheet of mm. 286x332. Sanguine pastel. Strong laid ivory paper. "Three crescent moons" watermark. Collection stamp. Good condition. These are two important preparatory drawings: on the recto the Venus with cherubs, in shaded bleeding, is a theme that Liberi frequents in different ways and that he uses for refined oil paintings; to the Eternal Father, in perspective from below, is a study for the altarpiece of the Salute church in Venice, and allows us to date the sheet, certainly before 1656. Crispo: "The growing success of Liberi's manner, with his careful blend of Baroque language and cultured quotations from the Venetian tradition, persuaded the Provveditori above the votive temple of the Salute to commission him the altarpiece with suppliant Venice and Saint Anthony of Padua who intercedes at the Trinity for the cessation of the siege of Candia, 1652- 1656, in which Liberi takes up the monumental staging and the lightened palette of Veronese. " Alberto Crispo, DBI, 65, 2005. See Stefania Mason Rinaldi, file a239, in Venice and the defense of the Levant. From Lepanto to Candia 1570-1670, exhibition catalog, Venice 1986, pp. 155-156. For the watermark: Briquet, II, pp. 314-25. Provenance: unidentified collection stamp.

Stima 10 000 - 12 000 EUR

Lotto 72 - NOVELLI. Temptations of Saint Anthony. Vision. Drawings. - NOVELLI, Pietro Antonio. Temptations of Saint Anthony. Vision. Drawings.1729 - 1804 Sheet of mm. 260x200. Two drawings front and back in pen with brown ink on ivory laid paper with a sign of watermark. Good condition. Two drawings on a single sheet, in the quick and incisive style typical of Novelli: the Temptations on the recto, the Vision on the back. Pietro Antonio Novelli in his artistic training was based on the great Venetian masters of the tradition, such as Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and Gaspare Diziani. In the numerous frescoes and altarpieces there are also elements of the Venetian Rococò, which was influenced by the frequentation of Jacopo Amigoni.

Stima 2 000 - 2 400 EUR

Lotto 73 - South America. Wall map by SANTINI. Three engravings. - Three engravings, overall size 1408x540 mm. Each engraving with its own cartouche. I. SANTINI, Paolo. Carte du Perou et Brasil Sepl, de Tierre-Firme, de Guyana, et de la Rivieire des Amazones.Venezia, Santini, 1779 Etching of 470x540 mm. Margins. Contemporary outline coloring. Good specimen. The map includes Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guayana, northern Peru and parts of Brazil. II. SANTINI, Paolo. Carte qui Represente la Partie Meridionale du Bresil et du Perou, le Chili Septentrional, et le Paraguay ... de l'Amerique Meridionale.Venezia, M. Remondini, 1784 Etching of 488x540 mm. Margins. Contemporary outline coloring. Good specimen. Beautiful map of the central portion of South America. III. SANTINI, Paolo. Carte du Chili Meridional, du Rio De La Plata, des Patagons, et du Detroit de Magellan.Venezia, Santini, 1779 Etching of 450x540 mm. Margins. Contemporary outline coloring. Some small spots. Good specimen. Beautiful etching taken from Santini's Atlas depicting the southern part of South America with Chile and Argentina.

Stima 1 500 - 1 800 EUR

Lotto 74 - Brazil. MONTANUS. Urbis Salvador. - Etching of 290x355 mm. Clear engraving. Nice specimen. Attractive panoramic view of San Salvador in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Fine copper engraving of the walled city of Salvador with ships and boats filling the harbor in the foreground. A lettered key at top left identifies numerous interesting points. Salvador was the first major port of colonial Brazil. Map take from the work: “De nieuwe en onbekende weereld” (Dutch) or “The New and Unknown World” (English). The work was published in Amsterdam in 1671 by Jacon Meurs.

Stima 350 - 400 EUR

Lotto 75 - Brazil. MONTANUS. Arx Nassovii. - Etching of 290x355 mm. Contemporary coloring. Wide margins. Nice specimen. This plate shows a contemporary colored view of the Dutch fortress Nassau in Brazil. The view depicts the scene of a battle off the coast of Pernambuco on the east coast of Brazil. On the top the indication of the latin denomination of the fortress. Map take from the work: “De nieuwe en onbekende weereld” (Dutch) or “The New and Unknown World” (English). The work was published in Amsterdam in 1671 by Jacon Meurs.

Stima 350 - 400 EUR

Lotto 76 - South America. SAYER. A map of South America. - 4 large engravings joined in two separate parts. Measure of the complete large map: 1002x1115 mm. Contemporary coloring. Few stains. Good specimen. This is probably the most important two panel wall map of South America produced in the 18th century. Largely based upon the earlier D’Anville map, this map depicts the continent in full with an inset of the Falkland Islands. A very ornate cartouche includes a native American, bird, alligator, monkey, treasures, waterfalls, fauna and a landscape. Very detailed map with many names of place and a table in the bottom regarding the various countries and their trades in the continent.

Stima 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lotto 77 - Three engravings of South America. D’ANVILLE. Amerique Meridionale. - Three etchings on Imperial folio. Measure of the complete large map: 1305x780 mm. Margins. Outline contemporary coloring. Some little slight stains. Good copy. Fantastic self-assembly mural map of South America. The three large prints depict the southern, central and northern parts of the continent. D'Anville's maps have a very modern clarity and immediacy, incorporating the best geographic knowledge available in his time. The English and other geographers copied extensively from his maps. In the southern section, pretty cartouche.

Stima 1 500 - 1 800 EUR

Lotto 78 - Brazil. BENOIST. Rio de Janeiro. - Lithography with contemporary watercolor. 312x480 mm. Glued on backing cardboard. Extremely rare and magnificent view of the city taken from the Ilha das Cobras, with sailing ships plying the Bay of Guanabara. In brilliant contemporary coloring. Philippe Benoist collaborated with the painter Eugene Ciceri to produce spectacular colored lithographs, taken from daguerreotypes, published in Paris by Lemercier around the middle of the 19th century.

Stima 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lotto 79 - Travel to America. MONTEBELLO. Autograph letter to «ma chère petite Maman» - Bifolio in-8vo. 200x128 mm. Letter written on three pages, French text, fine handwriting, brown ink. At the end he signs "Nap." Description of the ocean voyage to South America. "Nous avons quitté Pensacola le 21 et nous avons passé le Tropique il y a quelques heures, nous ne sommes plus qu'à quelques lieux de la Havane. […] Nous passerons la journée de demain à la Havane et nous repartirons le soir même pour La Guaira. Nous avons reçu il y a quelques instants le baptême du Bonhomme Tropique avec toutes les cérémonies usités ... J'espère que nous trouverons la Colombie dans un état plus tranquille que le Mexique, je desire beaucoup voir Bolivar ... "Napoleon-Auguste Lannes, Duke of Montebèllo, 1801 - 1874, embarked on a diplomatic career. At first attached to the embassy in Rome (1828-29), he participated to the July monarchy, which he represented in Denmark (1833), in Prussia (1833), in Switzerland (1836); then in the 1839 he was for a few days Minister of Foreign Affairs and in the 1847, Minister of the Navy. He ended his career as Napoleon III's ambassador to Petersburg (1858-66); in 1867 he became a senator.

Stima 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lotto 80 - Document on slavery trade. Lettera autografa firmata di Ch. Lamey & Damblat a Mr Francois Vallees a Bordeaux. - 4to. 255x198 mm. Bifolio. Letter on two leaves. Recipient address on the fourth page. Prephilatelic with “Petite Poste de Bordeaux” stamped over the address. Document of a commercial nature sent by a company that dealt with the slave trade. It's about a civil case against a landowner in Guadeloupe. Lamey and Damblat complain about the privileges enjoyed by plantation owners: “Monsieur … Vous etes dans l’erreur de croire que l’ordonnance du 25 Decembre dernier emanée par nos chefs & non du Roi, permettent la saisie des biens & des Nègres des Planteurs. Au contraire, elle les en garantit entièrement. On n’a le droit que de saisir leur récolte, et cette mesure à tant de désadrément & d’inconvénient, que tout le monde y renonce. Telles & telles personnes ont fati saisir des Sucres sur une habitation, qu’elles ont été obligées de les y laisser, parce que ni l’habitant saisi, ni aucun de ses voisins, n’ont voulu preter leurs attelages pour les charroyer … En resumé, le Planteur est toujours protegé par ceux qui nou gouvernent & le commerce souffre beaucoup de cette prédilection. Il est donc presq’impossible de forcer un habitant planteur de payer ses engagements … Nous sommes fachès que cette affaire traine aussi longtemps; mais dans le colonies c’est toujours ainsi…”The signatories of the letter had a thriving slave trade, which was officially abolished by Napoleon in 1815; Louis XVIII, by royal decree of January 1817 forbade the introduction of black slaves into the French colonies, and with the law of April 15, 1818 abolished the slave trade itself.Delobette: “C’est au hasard de l’étude documentaire qu’un relevé systématique des noms et résidences d’armateurs et de négociants permet une première ébauche prosopographique sans qu’il soit possible d’affirmer en permanence le délit négrier. De plus, l’apparition aux Antilles de nouvelles maisons originaires de métropole désireuses de fonder une maison d’armement négrier commanditée depuis Paris ou les ports du royaume complique les relevés. La maison Bégouën Demeaux & Cie du Havre reste sous la Restauration en relation d’affaire avec plusieurs maisons négrières comme la société bordelaise P. C. Damblat Thomas & Cie dont une agence existe à la Guadeloupe sous la raison Lamey & Damblat pendant qu’une autre s’implante au Havre.”

Stima 300 - 400 EUR

Lotto 81 - Twelve letters and documents on the creation of the railway in Italy. 1861 – 1865 - Nessuna descrizione

Stima 400 - 500 EUR

Lotto 82 - Coal mines. Seven letters and documents on French coal mines. 1838 – 1878 - Nessuna descrizione

Stima 600 - 700 EUR

Lotto 83 - China - Indochina. BONS D'ANTY. Collection of 25 invoices and business letters. - China, Hong Kong, Shanghai - Indochina-Tonkin. BONS D'ANTY, Pierre-Rémi. Collection of 25 invoices and business letters. 1890-1894 Sheets and bi-sheets of various sizes. Coming from:-Hong Kong:Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, 1 Bank Draft, 1892; Maison A. R. Marty, 1 Business letter signed, 1891; Walter W. Brewer, (bookseller, stationer, newsagent, piano and music dealer), 1 Invoice 1892.- Lang-son:Imperial Chinese Telegraphs, 4 telegrams 1891-1893; B. Duverger & C. Negociant Lang-Son, 1 Invoice 1892, 1 Letter 1894; Vergriete & Deschwanden, Entreprise de Transports, 1 Invoice, 1891; Lafeuille & Menard, 2 Bills 1890-91;- Hanoi:Maison Fontaine, Quincaillerie, 2 invoices 1892-1894; Librairie Schneider, 2 Bills, 1890-92;- Nothon, Capital of the island of Ko Samui:Douane de l'Annan et du Tonkin, 1 Letter, 1893- Haiphong:Maison Reynaud A. Chaffanjon, 5 Invoices and a Letter, 1890-92; Maison Schiess. 1 Bill, 1894.- Personal letter signed “Elise”.Singapore, April 10, 1894.Bifolio in 4to. Letterhead "Hotel de l'Europe", with engraved view. Text in French on two pages. The documents from China are very important: the bank draft of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, the telegrams of the Imperial Chinese Telegraphs, the invoices of companies active in Hong Kong and in Lang-son.The documents are all addressed to the French diplomat Pierre-Remi Bons d'Anty, 1859-1916, at the time consul of France in Tonkin, who had a brilliant career and was also the author of several works on China.

Stima 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Lotto 84 - RICCI-FOSSATI. Raccolta di 24 incisioni. - Oblong Folio, 322 x 480 mm. Contemporary binding in boards, latin title on red morocco label on cover. Ttilepage with dedication within decorated frame with floral motifs, 24 etchings numbered I-XXIV. All etchings are on thick laid paper, watermark with crossbow. The plates presents on the left “Marc. Ricci pinx.”, on the right the number of plate. Within the illustration, the monogram of Fossati. Very slight trace of wear on binding, inside very nice condition, a specimen with wide margin. Magnificent and very rare collection of twenty-four prints derived from works by Marco Ricci, with landscapes and ruins. The works were part of the collections of Joseph Smith and Anton Maria Zanetti. In the title page, outlined with a light and cursive phrasing, the work is dedicated to Count Francesco Algarotti. Succi: “le acqueforti di derivazione riccesca sorprendono piacevolmente per la raffinata orchestrazione dei grigi variamente graduati e, nei fogli migliori di tema rovinistico, per il tremolio delle vibrazioni luminose vagamente alludenti ai modi del Canaletto. Altrove le vellutate erpicature nerolucenti si oppongono al bianco assoluto degli spazi, liberi da segni, in un’alternanza complessa e meditata in cui l’artista rivela la sua fervida partecipazione al tema trattato.”Davide Antonio Fossati, Morcote 1708 - Venice 1795, landed in Venice in 1720, where he specialized in fresco painting and in particular in architecture and ornaments paintings. He stayed mainly in Venice, alternating his activity between Vienna (1723-28), where he successfully worked on the decoration of important noble palaces and city churches, Bratislava, the northern Hungary (1728-29) and Morcote. In 1743 he published a collection of etchings derived from paintings by Marco Ricci. He was appointed Academic of Honor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice in 1775 and of the Clementine of Bologna in 1778, the year in which he became a member of the College of painters of Venice.

Stima 8 000 - 10 000 EUR

Lotto 85 - Pompeii. FUMAGALLI. Pompeia: traité pittoresque historique et géométrique. - In folio, 475x330 mm; quarter vellum binding, gilt tile with label at the spine. Engraved Titlepage, Pp. 60. 81 copper plates by Paolo Fumagalli, of which 3 folded at the end of the vol. Text on 2 columns. Good copy with wide margins.Beautiful edition with imposing iconographic depiction of Pompeii. They are exhibited in the 81 map maps of the city, archaeological objects, especially pottery and tools for agriculture, mosaics beside views and spectacular views of the city and the ruins of Pompeii. Paolo Fumagalli, 1797-1873, a printing producer, had a typography in Florence where he published his most illustrious works.

Stima 1 500 - 1 800 EUR

Lotto 86 - Armorial binding with the coat of arms of Philippe d'Orléans, le Régent. L'Office de la Semaine Sainte, en latin et en françois. - In-8vo. 197x132 mm. Red morocco binding, coat of arms of Philippe d'Orléans in the center of the covers, framed by triple gilt rules with crowned figure at the corners, five ribs on spine with title, gilt ornate crowned monograms and lily flowers in the sections, gilt roulette on the edges of the plates, gilt edges. Illustrated titlepage engraved by Nicolas Chateau. Copy in magnificent binding with coat of arms of Philip of Orléans, known as the Regent, 1674-1723, dedicatee of the work.

Stima 1 000 - 1 400 EUR

Lotto 87 - 17th century French binding, 'Fanfare' style. L'Office de la Vierge Marie, pour tous les tems de l'année… - In-12mo. 160x95 mm. Contemporary binding in fawn morocco, covers and spine entirely decorated in gilt rules with small gilt irons, remains of clasps. Title page in red and black with engraved vignette, work printed in red and black in large types, some illustrations engraved on full-page copper.

Stima 800 - 1 000 EUR

Lotto 88 - CANOVA. Opere diverse scolpite in marmo o modellate soltanto da Antonio Canova. - Oblong Folio; mm. 452 X 625; Binding in old boards. engraved title on light blue old boards azzurro, 31 etchings. In this specimen are added 1 portrait and 1 etching of Polymnia. Good specimen. Beautiful and very rare work on inventions by Antonio Canova with Bas-reliefs and statues designed by the most talented artists of the time: Tommaso Piroli, Antonio Banzo, Pietro Fontana and others. Among the various series it contains the prints of the Bas-reliefs by Antonio Canova, of the Contours of bas-reliefs and other works executed partly in marble or modeled.

Stima 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Lotto 89 - ZOMPINI. Arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia. - Imperial Folio, mm. 530 x 358; binding in orange boards with blind tooling floral motives. Fustemberg specimen, bookplate pasted inside cover; leaves 4, Frontispiece, title page; Index of plates, printed Memoria, 60 cooper plates, numbered with caption. Each plate with contemporary venetian watermark: 3 half moons with written IMPERIAL, krown with letters AV, device with star at centre. A total of 62 plates engraved on copper. Some defects on binding, internally fine specimen, uncut, wide margins. Wonderful eighteenth-century edition of the Zompini. The work represents animated scenes with characters depicting the different popular activities that took place in the 18th century in the streets of Venice: street vendors, artisans, games. Under each plate, a tercet in Venetian dialect and rhyming jokingly describes the theme represented in the engraving.Pallucchini: “documentazione di motivi popolari con una freschezza di taglio e d'impressioni colte dal vero, rese all'acquaforte con disinvoltura piacevole”. Si calcola che furono stampate fra le 100 e le 200 copie di questa edizione. Lo Zompini inventò, disegnò ed incise i rami rappresentanti le “Arti che vanno per via” sotto la direzione di Anton Maria Zanetti.”

Stima 12 000 - 15 000 EUR

Lotto 90 - CONESTABILE. Dei monumenti di Perugia etrusca e romana. Volume delle Tavole. - Raro atlante con le tavole dell’opera del Conestabile dei «Monumenti di Perugia Etrusca e Romana».

Stima 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Lotto 91 - Travels. FERRARIO. Il costume antico e moderno di tutti i popoli. Europa-Asia. - Bella e rara opera di viaggi nel mondo con centinaia di tavole a colori. Lotto non possibile di restituzione.

Stima 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Lotto 92 - Giambattista TIEPOLO, School of. Seventeen heads. Drawings. - Giambattista TIEPOLO, School of. Seventeen heads. Drawings. 9 sheets, each of mm. 222x154. Black pencil on strong gray-blue laid paper. Sign of dampstain on the margins that does not affect the drawings. It is a study of the Banquet in Levi's house carried out in the workshop of Giambattista Tiepolo, by Francesco Lorenzi or by Costantino Cedini. The nine sheets, coming from a dismembered album with a trace of numbering in pencil, depict heads of the different characters in the Veronese painting, with different angles and perspectives. Eight sheets bear the designs on the front and back.

Stima 5 000 - 5 500 EUR

Lotto 93 - MAFFEI. La Merope tragedia con annotazioni dell'autore. - 4to, 205x150 mm; full vellum binding, gilt title on label on back, sprinkled edges. Pp. 384, 6 plates on copper. Engraved frontispiece drawned by G. B. Tiepolo and engraved by A. Zucchi. Engraving on titlepage. Woodcut initial letters, head-pieces and end-pieces. The engravings are by P. Q. Chedel. The name of author, Scipione Maffei, is present in the dedication. Starts each with own half-title the works: La merope tragedia del marchese Scipione Maffei [leaf D1r]; Lettera del sig. di Voltaire [T1r:]; Risposta alla lettera del signor di Voltaire [Y4r]; Merope tragedie par monsieur le marquis Scipion Maffei [2D4r]; Merope a tragedy in the original italian of the marquis Scipio Maffei [2N3r]; Confutazione della critica ultimamente stampata [2Y2r]. Nice specimen. Beautiful illustrated edition of Maffei's most important tragedy, followed by a rich documentation related to it, such as the Annotations, the Letter of Mr. Voltaire, the French translation by Freret of the tragedy, a Confutation of the criticism, the composition "For the death of Electoral principle " The Merope, which appeared in 1713 and was very successful at the Modena court, caused the literary figures of the time to discuss for years. This was due to Maffei's attempt to "modernize" Euripides' theme, adapting it to the tastes of the time. It knew immense fortune, being quickly imitated by authors such as Voltaire and Alfieri. In addition to antiquarian studies, the Maffei never ceased, even in the following decades, to take an interest in theatrical themes. In addition to the frontispiece, etched by Zucchi and taken from a drawing by G. B. Tiepolo, the other five tables outside the text, engraved by Q. Chedel are taken from drawings by L. Tocque. In the text, the etched headpieces and endpieces depict bas-reliefs and ornaments of the Lapidary Museum of Maffei.

Stima 600 - 800 EUR

Lotto 94 - GIGAULT DE LA SALLE. Voyage pittoresque en Sicile dedie a son altesse royale madame la duchesse de Berry. - 2 volumes in-plano. 610x470 mm. Contemporary red morocco binding, large red cardboard panel on the plates within a gilt decorated frame, gilt titles, rules and ornaments on the spines. Vol. I: 8 unnumbered pages with half-title, title page, notice to readers, dedication, 40, 90 unnumbered with 44 views and 1 geographical map. Vol. II: 4 unnumbered pages with half-title and title page, 100 unnumbered with 48 plates, 2 index. Typographic brand on the two title pages, with calligraphic initials, 'PD' and 'JD'. In total a geographical map of Sicily, 92 beautiful aquatints, some on a colored background. Copy without the list of subscribers, present only in some copies. Occasional foxing, sign of humidity on the margins, affecting some plates, some browning, however the copy is in good condition, with wide margins. Rare first edition, magnificently illustrated, edited by Jean Frederic Ostervald. The magnificent aquantints depict the most important monuments of Sicily and spectacular views of Syracuse, Catania, Messina, Etna, Palermo, Montreal, Termini Imerese, Sciacca, Agrigento, Taormina, etc. They are engraved by Franz Hegi, Theodore Henry Fielding, Newton Fielding and others after Forbin, Huber, Vauzelle, Lesamt, Bonington, Copley, Renoux and others, whose names appear in the plates. The plates are memorable for the skilful dosage of light and shadow which produces an evocative effect of three-dimensionality between bright skies, dark interiors and a series of other variably lit environments. The book was originally published in 24 parts and includes a historical summary by Gigault de La Salle that offers an overview of events from antiquity to his time. Abbey calls the work “the most ambitious of the colored aquatint books edited by J. F. d'Ostervald,” who produced a series of works on the picturesque, including two famous large editions focusing on the regions of France. To guarantee the quality of the aquatints, the work was printed in a limited number of copies. Abbey estimates that around 500 copies of the book were produced and comments that the book is “certainly rare, in this country at all events, only three copies being reported at auction in the last fifty years.”

Stima 8 000 - 10 000 EUR

Lotto 95 - Composite Atlas. 63 Geographical maps on double pages, engraved in copper on laid paper. - Composite Atlas. 63 Geographical maps on double pages, engraved in copper on laid paper. Paris, first half of the 17th century In-folio. 440x277 mm. Havana half leather binding and beige hardback, label with gold title on the spine. The maps are mounted on guards. The first map, with the World Map of Jodocus Hondius restored with two parts missing. Ancient handwritten manuscript index with titles in French. Some maps with traces of wear and small stains on the margins. Two small repaired wormholes on most plates. Overall good copy. Important collection of rare geographical maps, printed in Paris in the years from 1635 to 1652. The maps are by the most important cartographers and map publishers of the time: Jean Boisseau, Cornelis Danckerts, Pierre Duval, Jacques Honervogt, Jean Le Clerc, Henri Le Roi, Michel Van Lochom, Christophe / Nicolas Tassin, Pierre Mariette, Salomon Rogers, Fernando Alvares Seco, Jean Tarde, Melchior Tavernier, Damien de Templeux.Jean Boisseau's map "Description de la Nouvelle France ..."; in the very rare first state of 1643 is of particular importance: this is the first map to illustrate and name all five Great Lakes (Burden, 261; Kershaw, Canada 83); by Boisseau there are also, among others, the maps of Crete (1645), of the Holy Land (1637), Switzerland (1742). Furthermore, of considerable importance, the map of Scandinavia and the Baltic regions, published separately in 1644.The collection opens with the Map of the World "Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydpographica Tabula"; by Jodocus Hondius, in Pierre Mariette's edition of 1642; by J. Hondius there are also the four Continents, Europe, America, Asia and Africa, published by Mariette in 1650. We also highlight the rare maps by Pierre Duval, by Henri Le Roi, by Christophe / Nicolas Tassin, by Melchior Tavernier. Upon request, we have the complete list of maps.

Stima 18 000 - 20 000 EUR

Lotto 96 - Geography. ALBERTI. Descrittione di tutta Italia. - 4to, 198x145 mm. Full calf binding of XVIII century. Leaves [34], 495, 1 leaf blank; 100 numbered leaves, 5 of Index. 7 double page plates. Double titlepage with engraved printer’s mark, woodcut initial letters. Araldic ex-libris “Fechenbach” glued on the inside cover. Monogram of previous owner on titlepage. Slight rubbed binding, internally some brownings and signs of wear; good copy. Rare illustrated edition. The work, in this edition enlarged with the addition of the "Islands", constitutes an important collection of material and will be particularly used in the subsequent development of geographical and geopolitical science. The geographical maps represent Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, the Tremiti islands, the Tuscan archipelago, the Pontine archipelago and the islands in the Gulf of Naples. At the end, a beautiful bird's eye view of Venice considered as an island. The Corsican map is one of the first printed. Only the editions of 1567 and this one presents the cartographic section, which is also offered on the market separately.

Stima 1 800 - 2 000 EUR

Lotto 97 - Atlas. ROUX. Recueil des principaux plans des ports et rades de la mer Méditerranée. - Oblong 4to. Contemporary binding in marbled leather, flat back. Engraved illustrated title page, 121 engraved maps of ports and harbours, table of contents at end. First edition. Important cartographic work on the Mediterranean, the most important and complete of the time. Intended for navigators, it contains detailed plans of the main ports of the Mediterranean, with the different sea beds, any moorigns, the nature of the seabeds, as well as the cities, fortifications, citadels, arsenals and lighthouses. Each map has a scale in leagues, toises or miles of Provence. The work ends with an alphabetical table (2 pages recto verso), in which the names of Alicante, Algiers, Alexandria, Barcelona, Cadix, Collioure, Calvi, Corfù, Gibraltar, Genoa, Livorno, Malaga, Malta appear in particular, Marseille, Naples, Oran, Porto-Vecchio, Palermo, Tangier, Tripoli, Venice. In addition to the passage between Corsica and Sardinia, it contains that of the Dardanelles, as well as various maps of islands (of the Gulf of Venice, Sainte Maure). The work ends with an alphabetical table (2 pages recto verso), in which the names of the places depicted in the maps appear.

Stima 3 000 - 3 500 EUR

Lotto 98 - Atlas. DE FER. Les Costes de France sur l'Ocean et sur la Mer Mediterranee. - 2 parts in one volume, 4to. Contemporary brown calf binding. Double-page engraved pictorial title, engraved divisional title. Pages [4], 38, [2], 60. 32 mostly double-page engraved coastal charts, including a folding Winds chart and a plate of the general index of France. Good copy. First Edition. The first atlas published by Nicolas De Fer, produced shortly after he became the official geographer to the French Dauphin. The maps are based on an atlas published by Tassin in 1634. Tassin sold the plates of that atlas to Nicolas’s father Antoine De Fer, which Nicolas then modified for the present work. He added a great number of villages, identified regions and rivers, revised some of the decorative features, and added titles that indicate the names of the capitaineries garde-côtes as established in 1676. The first part charts the Atlantic coastline from Calais to San Sebastian; the second the Mediterranean coast between the Spanish border and Villefranche. Pastoureau, Fer VIIIA; Phillips, Atlases 8389.

Stima 5 000 - 6 000 EUR

Lotto 99 - Binding. Office de la semaine sainte à l'usage de Rome et de Paris, en latin et en français. - 8vo. 212x140 mm. Contemporary binding in full red morocco, fluted spine decorated with double gilt fillets decorated with flowers and fleur-de-lys in the centre, richly decorated covers with rich gilt sections with fanfare consisting of quadruple gilt rules intertwined and decorated with foliage, small gilt lace framing, gilt coats of arms and numerals in the centre of King Louis XV, gilt roulettes, all edges gilt. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title, 4 plates after Humblot engraved by Scotin. Stippled copy in red. Faded headpieces, some traces of wear on binding, brownong, scattered foxing.

Stima 700 - 800 EUR

Lotto 100 - HEINEKEN. Lucidum Prospectivae Speculum, Das ist: Ein heller Spiegel der Perspective. - Folio. mm. 385 x 235, Full leather binding, title on label. Engraved Frontispiece signed Georg David Nessenthaler after C.P. Heineken, Pages [4, including Titlepage], 32. 105 figure on 95 consecutively numbered plates (many folded). On the Frontispiece Exlibris manuscript by Frid Leopold Gagg de Levenborg and label on the reverse. Slight marginal foxing, some tears and restoration, but generally good specimen. Splendid first edition of this baroque worck richly illustrated on practical perspective. Descargues: “This is one of the most beautiful comprehensive ‘monumental’ treatises written in the eighteenth century”. Kemp identifies Heineken’s text as one commonly used by 18th-century artists to master the technicalities of perspectival representation (The Science of Art, p. 227), and indeed, Heineken addresses his work on the “beautiful Science” to “amateurs and beginners.” The Lucidum Prospectivae Speculum consists of a striking series of richly Baroque views, many of church interiors. In addition to ornate capitals, altars and tombs, etc., Heineken includes a remarkable group of trompe l’oeil ceilings observed from different vantage points. He also discusses at length the falling of shadows outside and within enclosed spaces, and the effect of candlelight by day as well as night. Polyhedrons and the reflections in water complete the volume. The majority of the non-geometrical plates include at least one human figure to provide a sense of scale. A concise preface explicates the images. Heineken (1680-1740) was an artist in Lübeck. This, his only publication, received a second edition in 1753. OCLC lists a single copy, Princeton. We have also located a copy at HAB-Wolffenbüttel.

Stima 5 000 - 6 000 EUR

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Lotto 8 - PIRANESI. Veduta di rovine con statua di Minerva. - Etching, 630x495 mm. Wide margins. State III/VII. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Lotto 12 - PIRANESI. Colonna Antonina. - Etching, 538x402 mm. Wide margins. State III/VII. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Lotto 29 - PIRANESI. Veduta del Porto di Ripetta. - Etching, 590x370 mm. Wide margins. State IV/VIII. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Lotto 30 - PIRANESI. Veduta del porto di Ripa Grande. - Etching, 615x382 mm. Wide margins. State II/VI. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Lotto 31 - RICCI. Paesaggio con contadini e boscaioli. - In questa bellissima acquaforte colpisce il vivido contrasto tra le zone in penombra e dalla brillante intensità della luce che colpisce le fronde degli alberi.Succi, 426.

Lotto 32 - RICCI. L’Apparizione dell’orso. - In questa bella acquaforte, i veri protagonisti sono gli alberi, che con i loro tronchi possenti partecipano alla concitazione della scena: un orso è appena sbucato dal bosco, facendo fuggire impauriti 3 personaggi.Succi, 415.

Lotto 33 - RICCI. Villaggio con traghetto sul fiume. - Splendida acquaforte in cui vi è una prevalenza di chiari e di scuri in cui le strutture architettoniche rendono più netti i contrasti, rendendo queste strutture più volumetriche, simbolo di una grande consapevolezza artistica.Succi, 423.

Lotto 39 - PIRANESI. Prospettiva della Nuova Piazza in Padova. - Etching, 1550x600 mm. Margins. I/III state. Drawn by Giuseppe Subleyras. Brownings and small defects..

Lotto 41 - PIRANESI. Veduta dell’Arco di Tito. - Etching, 710x470 mm. Wide margins. State I/IV. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Lotto 42 - PIRANESI. Veduta dell’Arco di Settimio Severo. - Etching, 700x465 mm. Wide margins. State I/III. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Lotto 43 - PIRANESI. Tempio detto Volgarmente di Giano. - Etching, 700x465 mm. Wide margins. State I/IV. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition.

Lotto 53 - Rome. PIRANESI. Veduta dell’arco di Tito. - Splendida incisione tratta dall’opera “Le Antichità romane”. Roma, Bouchard, 1756.

Lotto 55 - Binding. Missae in agenda defunctorum tantum deservientes, ex Missali Romano... - Nessuna descrizione

Lotto 56 - Binding. Missae in agenda defunctorum ad Celebrantium Comoditatem. - Nessuna descrizione

Lotto 68 - GIAMPICCOLI – RICCI. Cortile rustico. - Nessuna descrizione