Lot 397: GIOVANNI BATTISTA FALDA (1643-1678), and GIOVANNI FRANCESCO VENTURINI (1650-1710)

Le Fontane Ne Palazzi e Ne Giardini di Roma con li Loro Prospetti et Ornamenti: Eight Plates eight engravings, 1691, with hand-coloring, on laid papers, published by Giacomo de Rossi, Rome, all with margins, all with pale surface soiling to varying degrees, the occasional pale foxmark on a few plates, Altra Fontana pi— Sopra with stray printing ink and a small moisture stain along the lower left plate edge, Fontana su la Piazza with an auxiliary vertical fold (as issued), otherwise all apparently in very good condition, in faux-gilt Renaissance style frames, not examined out of the frames all P. approx. 81/4 x 111/2 in. (215 x 292 mm.) all overall 17 x 20 3/8 in. (431 x 517 mm.) (8).