LEONE (Pietro) (Ed.). The wonders of the city of Rome, where - Lot 69

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LEONE (Pietro) (Ed.). The wonders of the city of Rome, where - Lot 69
LEONE (Pietro) (Ed.). The wonders of the city of Rome, where is treated the churches, stations, relics of the holy bodies With the guide corrected and amplified In Rome, at Bernabo, 1725. In-8, [4] f. (including one blank and the frontispiece), 216 p., fr., pl., figs. in contemporary ivory vellum, smooth spine, manuscript title (very light stain on the lower cover, one corner missing in the margin p.22). Descriptive guide to Rome offering a selection of texts by Italian authors and translated into French. The part entitled "The antiquities of the city of Rome", pages 144 to 200, is said to be borrowed from Andrea Palladio (cf. Worldcat). The illustration consists of a frontispiece and a double plate (view of St. Peter's in Rome), engraved on copper, and 66 woodcuts in the text. Provenance: Jean-Jacques Manoury (1736-1829), bookseller in Caen (handwritten bookplate dated 1795 on the lower back cover); Bailleul (old handwritten bookplate). Old handwritten note on one endpaper giving the recipe for a counterpoison.
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