Lot 1323: MARTINELLI, AGOSTINO.

Descrittione di diversi ponti esistenti sopra li fiumi Nera, e Tevere con una discorso particolare della navigatione da Perugia a Roma. Rome: Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, 1676

Condition Note:

4to (201 x 142mm.), [8 (including engraved arms)], 58pp., illustration : woodcut vignette on title-page, engraved plate containing arms of Innocent XI, the dedicatee, woodcut initials, 21 engraved and woodcut plates (19 folding), binding : contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece, red edges

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LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Cicognara 940; Rossetti 6710; Riccardi ii, 122-123
CATALOGUE NOTE

first edition, containing plates of various bridges along the course of the Nera and the Tiber, including those within Rome itself.