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Thursday 11 December 2025 e Friday 12 December 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Alberti, Giuseppe Antonio

Treatise on the Measurement of Factories, 1757

Estimate

€ 100 - 200

Sold

€ 129

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Information

Venice, by Giambattista Recurti, 1757. In 8°. Portrait of the author engraved by J. Magnini on the frontispiece, copperplate title page on the verso of the half-title, with 38 numbered plates, one of which is folded, woodcut royal decoration on the frontispiece, woodcut initials and decorations, slight foxing, contemporary hardback binding, handwritten title on the spine, minor defects.


Specialist Notes

First edition edited by the Bolognese engineer Giuseppe Antonio Alberti, who collaborated on important hydraulic and cadastral projects in Emilia and Romagna, particularly in Faenza and Bagnacavallo.

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