Ferdinando Ongania

Lot 129: ONGANIA, FERDINANDO.

Name: ONGANIA, FERDINANDO.
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: ahnkhq1rf7

Est: €1,500 EUR - €2,000 EURSold:

Sotheby'sAmsterdam, NetherlandsNovember 28, 2005

Item Overview

Description

STREETS AND CANALS IN VENICE AND IN THE ISLANDS OF THE LAGOONS [WITH TEXT BY POMPEO MOLMENTI]. VENICE: FERDINANDO ONGANIA, 1895-1896

ONGANIA, FERDINANDO.

folio (558 x 363mm.), title and some headings printed in red and black, additional pictorial title-page, 100 engraved and lithographed plates, original pictorial cloth, binding slightly rubbed

NOTE

Ongania was one of the earliest publishers to produce art books using the newly developed process of photogravure. This work was also issued with the text in Italian but the English version was produced for the Grand Tourists who frequented Ongania's bookshop in Piazza San Marco.

Artist or Maker

Ferdinando Ongania

Auction Details

Maggi-Spaulding: An American-European Collection

Sotheby's

November 28, 2005, 12:00 AM EST

De Boelelaan 30, Amsterdam, 1083 HJ, NL

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