L'arti per via [...] offerte al grande, et alto Nettuno gigante Sig. della Piazza di Bologna [...]

Bologna, G. Longhi, [late 18th-early 19th c.]

Hammer price: € 320

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Lot description

Folio: engr. title and 40 pl. (sl. foxed).

19th-c. half black buckram, marbled paper covers (spine missing, rubbbed).

Third state (?) of the famous suite of Mitelli composed of 40 plates engraved by Francesco Curti, representing street vendors and merchants from Bologna. With captions in 4 verses. Engr. title showing a view of Bologna. The 1st edition was published in Rome in 1660.
Ref. Lipperheide 1292. - Cp. Colas 539 (under the name of Annibale Carracci), Hiller 618.