Dec 17, 2020 - Sale 2555

Sale 2555 - Lot 295

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(ROMAN EMPIRE.) Cepparuli, Francisco; engraver. Bound group of Italian-engraved maps and plates. 9 leaves of distance tables in Italian and 64 engraved genealogy charts, views, maps and plans of Egypt, the Middle East, Mediterranean and other parts of Europe and Africa. Most issued folding but now laid out en plano; oblong 9 1/4x14 1/2 inches, no binding; scattered foxing and edge wear. [Naples?], 1744-1746

Additional Details

Curious suite of Italian plates pirated from earlier English and continental engravings. All signed by Cepparuli in the plate; paginations indicate a much larger work though we have been unable to associate a title or context.