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PIRANESI, Francesco (1748-1810) Raccolta de' Tempi Antichi. Prima Parte ... Seconda Parte . Rome: [c.1780-]1790. 2 volumes in one, 2° (522 x 388mm). Titles with engraved vignettes, fly-title to first vol., engraved initial to dedication to vol. II, double-page etched and engraved dedication, and 38 etched and engraved plates (of 50), 27 double-page, one double-page and folding. (Lacking the descriptive letterpress for vol. I, 5 plates to vol. I and the last 7 plates to vol. II; plates X, XV, XVI and XXIV cut down, plate XV detached with marginal staining, plates to vol. II browned and stained.) Contemporary half vellum (sometime recased and crudely repaired, extremities covered with fabric tape and rubbed).
PIRANESI, Francesco (1748-1810) Raccolta de' Tempi Antichi. Prima Parte ... Seconda Parte . Rome: [c.1780-]1790. 2 volumes in one, 2° (522 x 388mm). Titles with engraved vignettes, fly-title to first vol., engraved initial to dedication to vol. II, double-page etched and engraved dedication, and 38 etched and engraved plates (of 50), 27 double-page, one double-page and folding. (Lacking the descriptive letterpress for vol. I, 5 plates to vol. I and the last 7 plates to vol. II; plates X, XV, XVI and XXIV cut down, plate XV detached with marginal staining, plates to vol. II browned and stained.) Contemporary half vellum (sometime recased and crudely repaired, extremities covered with fabric tape and rubbed). FIRST EDITION WITH THE VERY RARE SECOND PART CONTAINING THE PLATES OF THE PANTHEON. 'This was the first substantial work to be published under Francesco's name after the death of his father in 1778, and was intended as an informal continuation of the elder Piranesi's Le antichità Romane ... very few of the Pantheon plates seem to have been circulated, and the BAL, Bodleian, Soane, British Library and all but one of the American libraries visted by NUC possess only the first part' (RIBA 2546).