Dec 01, 2016 - Sale 2433

Sale 2433 - Lot 136

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ARTISTS' MANUALS.) Bartoli, Pietro Santi and Giovanni Pietro Bellori. Le Antiche Lucerne sepolcrali figurate. Three parts in one. Engraved titles in each part, 116 engraved plates. Folio, 20th-century spotted calf, spine stamped in gold with red lettering piece; scattered light foxing, Plate 24 misbound; rectangular purple (library) stamp on half-title. first edition of this large collection of Roman sepulchral lamps. Cicognara 3609; Berlin 889; Vinet 1449. Rome: Gio. Francesco Buagni, 1691