Lot 26
  • 26

Bayardi, Ottavio Antonio, and others

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • The Antiquities of Herculaneum, 7 volumes, comprising:
  • paper
Idem. Catalogo degli antichi monumenti dissotterrati dalla discoperta citta di Ercolano. Naples: Regia Stamperia, 1754first 3 leaves torn at inner margin and creased
Idem. Le pitture antiche d'Ercolano. Naples: ibid., 1757-1765, 4 volumes, engraved additional title (Le antichita di Ercolano esposte), double-page map, 4 engraved portraits and 230 plates (of 240), illustrations, lacking plates 15, 16, 28 in vol.1, 12, 16, 17 in vol.3 and 3, 8, 24, 31 in vol.4, a few leaves torn at beginning and end at inner margin
Idem. De' bronzi di Ercalano. Naples: ibid., 1767-1771, 2 volumes, 2 engraved portraits and 184 plates (of 188), illustrations, lacking plates 10, 15 (plus text), 43, 68 in vol.2, vol.1 with tears to first and last leaves, vol.2 damp-stained at inner margin at beginning and end

7 volumes, FIRST EDITIONS, folio (460 x 340mm.), half-titles, contemporary half russia, bindings worn and covers detached (causing tears to some first and last leaves); sold not subject to return

Literature

Blackmer 97 (second edition), 37

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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Catalogue Note

This set lacks the final volume of Paintings and one volume of Lamps from this series, published some time later, in 1779 and 1792.