D’AZEGLIO, Roberto (1790-1862) - La Reale Galleria di Torino illustrata. Turin: Chirio e Mina (vol. 1 e 2) - Alessandro Fontana (vol. 3 e 4), 1836-46.   A copy with wide margins of the first catalogue illustrating, with a rich array of plates, the "Reale Galleria" of Palazzo Madama, now known as Galleria Sabauda, ​​inaugurated and open to the public on 2 October 1832. This is the edition printed between 1836 and 1846. The work came out in illustrated booklets from plates reproducing the paintings in the Pinacoteca, for which the author collaborated with the best Italian engravers of the time. D'Azeglio, curator and founder of the museum, and author of the descriptions on the paintings, combined the reflections of artistic criticism with long historical digressions aimed at giving the work a strong Italian connotation.   4 volumes, folio (511 x 331mm). Half titles, portrait of Carlo Alberto in the fourth volume, 164 plates overall protected by tissue paper, 40 for each of the three volumes, 44 in the fourth and final volume, plate XXII of the second volume erroneously numbered XXI, some pagination errors in vol. 4 ending with p. 302 instead of with p. 326 as reported in SBN, but apparently complete with the text without the index of the plates in the final volume (unevenly spread foxing in the first two volumes and occasional in the second, occasional browning). Contemporary half calf over contemporary percalline covers, darker spines in vols. 3 and 4, gilt decorations on covers and spine, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed and some loss to spine ends, heavier in the final volume, foxing). Provenance: Biblioteca Scati di Casaleggio (bookplate). (4)

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