Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Lot 541
Rome, etc. An album of fifty-eight various engraved views of Rome and elsewhere, 18th-early 19th c.,. consisting of three large etched views by Giuseppe Varsi (Prospetto principale del celebre Palazzo di Caprarola Fontana della celebre acqua Vergine, volgarmente detta di Trevi & Fontana dellAcqua Paola sul Monte Gianicolo, 1746, stained with some spotting), eight large engraved views by Andrea Gasparini of Greek ruins, 1842-43, an unidentified view of the Villa Pamphili (stained and some minor marginal paper repairs), four engraved views near Como by G. Maritelli, a small etched view by Rossini, etching by Paoletti Veneto of the New Bridge under construction by the Palazzo Salviati, 1827, an etched view of the Colosseum by Paolo Barbazza, two tinted litho. views of church interiors in Rome by Chapuy, two proof etchings before letters of a classical landscape (the second by P. Parboni, dated 1835), an etched view of the Interno dellArco di Settimio Severo by Rossini, 1833, ten etched views by C. Piccoli, including the Pantheon, Tempio Antonino, Piazza e Basilica Vaticana porta Maggiore Interno del Pantheon etc., plus twenty-three b&w etched views by Carlo Labruzzi [from the Via Appia Illustrata], with title by Gaetano Cottafavi, each with title in Italian and French, approx. 540 x 760 mm and smaller, all bound in mid-19th c. cloth-backed marbled boards, some wear to extrems., with hand written list of titles at front, large folio (1)
