Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PECCHI [or PECCHIO], FRANCESCO MARIA. Tractatus de aquaeductu. 4 volumes. Engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Bartolomeo Arese; 2 folding woodcut plates; numerous full-page and text woodcuts; 2 folding letterpress tables. [38], 412, [62]; [40], 466, lxxvi; [38], 291, [69]; [12], lxxix, [1], 570, [9] pages, including half-titles. 4 volumes. Folio, 338x213 mm, contemporary vellum boards, soiled, covers slightly warped, short crack at top of Volume 1 rear and Volume 2 rear joints; occasional browning or foxing, minor stains on Volume 2 opening leaves, worming in blank upper outer corners toward end, light dampstaining in second half of Volume 3, Volume 4 half-title browned, dampstaining in lower outer corners at end. Bookplates of Prince Marco Antonio Borghese (1814-1886) and Franklin Institute Library. Pavia: Giovanni Antonio Magri [et al.], (1670)-1681

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first edition of an exhaustive treatise on civil and canon law relating to aqueducts and water supply. Riccardi II, 254.