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Toscana - Bicchierai, Alessandro
Collection of drawings of the royal factories of the baths of Montecatini in the Valdinievole, 1787
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€ 200 - 400
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Florence, St. n., 1787. In 2nd large. Beautiful allegorical title page engraved by Gaetano Vascellini based on a design by Antonio Terreni, 3 leaves, framed by a double fillet, with the "Description of the tables", elegant drop cap with small view, double plate with general view of the baths, followed by XIV double-page plates , engraved, among others, by Cosimo Zocchi, Aniello Lamberti, Gio. Battista Cecchi, Benedetto Cecchi heirs, Ferdinando Gregori etc., hardcover binding covered with woodcut decorated paper, some gaps. Ex libris “Leonis S. Olschki” applied to the front cover.
Specialist Notes
First and only edition on strong paper in a copy from the library of Leone Olschki. Moreni I, 125: ''Does it go together with these works dedicated to the Ser. Grand Duke Leopold?[il reference ? to the edition published by Cambiagi in the same year] another Tome in folio. max. of beautiful Rami in number of 15 containing the collection of drawings Dell' RR. factories belonging to the said Baths, which together with the typographical luxury of the Istoria form a whole well worthy of the mentioned Sovereign Augustus, who generously paid for it...'' .
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