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"Collezione di tiramenti rari da celebrate statue antiche. 1755", [late eighteenth/early nineteenth century]

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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"Collezione di tiramenti rari da celebrate statue antiche. 1755", title and leaf of contents in ink, 44 full-page finely executed original pencil drawings after engravings of Roman antiquities, one signed "Nicol. Mosman. del", all within rule borders, with captions in lower margin, tissue guards, some light spotting, blindstamp in blank area of plates, nineteenth century black morocco, elaborately gilt-tooled, metal hasps and clasps, folio (585 x 430mm.), [late eighteenth/early nineteenth century]

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Attractively presented album of finely executed pencil drawings of the most celebrated Roman statues, mostly after Domenico Rossi, or Zanetti.

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