Nuova Raccolta delle più interessanti Vedute della Città di Firenze con alcune altre della Toscana
Florence: Lorenzo Bardi, c 1840. Oblong quarto, 7 3/4 11 inches (195 x 280 mm). 18 aquatint plates engraved by G. Carrocci and others (image size 14 x 19 cm, plate mark size 18 x 25 cm), with superb hand coloring in heavy watercolor and gouache within black line and grey gouache borders. Preceded by a dedication page printed on blue paper; original upper wrapper with aquatint vignette also printed on blue paper, bound in. Contemporary red sheep-backed boards, rubbed, with brown calf spine.
Provenance: Library of Norman Bobins.
[Bobins, vol. 5, 1675].
Exceptionally fine series of views of Florence landmarks with a few from Pisa, being a new version of Zocchi's "Scelta di XXIV vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese e palazzi della città di Firenze," first published in 1744.
Condition: Very good.
Item number: 1613
Price: $8,500.00
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