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PLANETE DES ARTS Me Véronique Dubois

70 - Giuseppe Antonio GUATTANI (1748–1830)
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Giuseppe Antonio GUATTANI (1748–1830) Rome, Stamperia Pagliarini, 1805. 2nd edition. Complete work in two volumes. 24 x 17.4 cm. Page numbers: (4), 124; (4), 150. Half-leather bindings with gilt titles and ornamentation on the spine. Marbled covers, showing slight scuffs. Illustrated frontispiece, with a cut-out plate mounted on the half-title page, engraved by Rastaini and depicting Artemis after a bas-relief from the Villa Albani. In addition to the frontispiece, the first volume contains a large-format (folded) illustrative map of ancient Rome and 27 plates, three of which are large-format. The second volume contains 30 plates, five of which are large-format, some of which are out of sequence. The plates are the work of Rastaini, Mori, Silvestrini and Muchetti. This is one of the major — richly illustrated — works by the archaeologist and scholar Giuseppe Maria Guattani (Rome, 1748–1830), son of a famous doctor. An eclectic figure, he served as permanent secretary of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Archaeology (now the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca). The first edition dates from 1795. > Cicognara, 3754. Schudt, 773. Fossati Bellani, I, 941. Book not collated Consultant: Didier Couchoux, former expert at the Court of Appeal of Draguignan
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