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Roma aeterna... sive ipsius aedificiorum romanorum, [Amsterdam, Schenk, 1705]

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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SCHENK (PETER)

Roma aeterna... sive ipsius aedificiorum romanorum, engraved title, dedication, mezzotint portrait, plate list, and 100 etched plates, occasional light spots, paper flaw causing loss to blank corner of plate 39, nineteenth century half morocco, rubbed, oblong folio (330 x 240mm.), [Amsterdam, Schenk, 1705]

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Provenance: Gift inscription in Latin from a "very loving father" to his son Charles, dated 1776, on title. See illustration on preceding page.

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