Estimate € 1,000 - 1,500
Sold € 1,000
Auction: 31 January 2023 at 15:00
VISCONTI, Ennio Quirino (1751-1818) - Museo Pio clementino. Milano: Nicolò Bettoni, 1818-1822. [INSIEME A:] - Il Museo Chiaramonti. Milano: presso gli editori, 1820. [E:] - Iconografia Greca. Milano: presso gli editori, 1823. A very fine copy, fresh, with wide margins and in an elegant contemporary binding of the three works with over 600 plates. 3 works in 11 volumes, 4to (309 x 222mm). First work in 7 volumes. Portrait of the author as frontispiece drawn by Locatelli, engraved in copper by Becceni under the direction of Longhi and 448 plates divided as follows: vol.1 with an unnumbered plate, plates numbered I-LI, others numbered I-X [tot. 64], vol. 2 with plates I-LII and plate 1a followed by plates aI-aVII and bI-bVII [tot. 67], vol. 3 with plates L, VI, IV, IV [tot. 64], vol. 4 with plates XLV and Xa, Xb, XVIa, XVIb, XVIIa, XXVb, XXVc, XXIX*, XXXVI*, XLVb and aIII and BIV [tot. 62], vol. 5 XLV plates with XXXIb and AV, BIII, CI [tot. 55], vol. 6 with LXII and XXIIa, AII, BIII [tot. 68], vol. 7 L and XIIb, XIIc, XIIIa, XIVa, XVa, XVII2, XXXVa, XLIIIa, XLIIIb, XLIXa, AIII, BV [tot. 68]. - Second work in one volume with 52 plates divided as follows: one unnumbered portrait and plates A-B, XLIV with IXa, XLIIb and aIII [tot. 52]. - Third work in 3 volumes with 103 plates divided as follows: vol.1: XXXVII plates VIa, IXa, Xa, XVa, XVIa, XVIIIa, XIXa, XXa, XXb, XXc, XXd, XXIa, XXIIa, XXIIIa, XXVa, XXVIIa , XXVIIIa, XXIXa, XXIXb, XXXIIa, XXXIIb, XXXIIIa, XXXVa [tot.60], vol. 2 with XXIII plates and IIa, IIb [tot. 25], vol. 3 with XVIII plates [tot. 18]. (Occasional light spotting). Contemporary marbled boards with gilt-decorated brown calf spines and blue speckled edges (minor wear, hinges reinforced and joints sometimes weak). The work is apparently complete, it is being sold as described and not subject to return. (11)
Estimate € 1,000 - 1,500