Dec 09, 2021 - Sale 2591

Sale 2591 - Lot 322

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(ROME.) Marco Sadeler; Giovanni Battista Falda; and others. [Composite atlas comprising five seventeenth-century engraved series of Roman architecture]. Oblong folio, 9 1/2x15 inches, contemporary mottled calf with gilt morocco title pieces to upper and lower covers, some rubbing but overall sound and attractive; scattered stains and foxing; bookplate of G.S. Cusin. Rome, latter half seventeenth century

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Marco Sadeler. Vestigi Delle Antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzuolo et Altri Luoghi. Engraved allegorical title-page and 50 full-page engraved plates; 3 additional engraved folding plates by Étienne Dupérac bound in. Rome: Giacomo de Rossi, 1660. Re-engraved plates after the 1606 Prague edition by Aegidius Sadeler.

and: Giovanni Battista Falda. Il Nuovo Teatro Delle Fabriche, et Edificii, in Prospettiva di Roma Moderna, Sotto il Felice Pontificato di N.S. Pap Alessandro VII. Parts 1-3. 3 engraved sectional title-pages, 3 engraved dedications, and 82 full-page unnumbered engraved plates. Rome: Giovanni de Rossi, 1665.

and: Giovanni Battista Falda(?) [Suite of 7 unsigned engraved plates of Italian churches]: S. Pietro di Roma in Vaticano; S. Pauolo; S. Bastiano; S. Giovanni Laterano; S. Chroce; S. Lorenzo; S. Maria Maggiore. [Rome, circa 1650?]

and: Giovanni Battista Falda. Le Fontane di Roma Nelle Piazze, e Luoghi Publici Della Citta, con li Loro Prospetti, Come Sono al Pesente. Parts 1-2. 2 engraved title-pages, two engraved dedications, and 45 full-page engraved plates. Rome: Giovanni de Rossi, [1691].

and: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi; after Matthias Greuter, Francesco Corduba, and Gottfried de Scaichi. [Suite of eight etchings of Roman gardens and palaces]. Full-page, one folding. Rome, circa 1650.