Lot 3317: [ZUCCHI, FRANCESCO (1692-1764),

ENGRAVER.
TEATRO DELLE FABBRICHE PIU COSPICUE IN PROSPETTIVA DELLA CITTÀ DI VENEZIA. VENICE: GIAMBATISTA ALBRIZZI, C. 1740 ]

TEATRO DELLE FABBRICHE PIU COSPICUE IN PROSPETTIVA DELLA CITTÀ DI VENEZIA. VENICE: GIAMBATISTA ALBRIZZI, C. 1740]

volume 1 only (of 2), oblong 4to (194 x 255mm.), no text, illustration: double-page engraved view of Venice, and 45 sheets of views, most with 2 or more views to a sheet, binding: eighteenth-century marbled-paper boards, lacking title, slight staining to general view, spine worn with loss, binding creased

PROVENANCE

"T.P. 1748" in manuscript on preliminary blank (presumably Thomas Parker, third Earl of Macclesfield, d.1795). The upper cover is titled (in the same hand) "Views of Venice."

LITERATURE

Cicognara 4381 (calling for 45 plates only)

NOTE

This volume contains the engraved prospect of Venice, together with the main churches, public buildings, squares, various islands and general views.