PIRANESI -- Varie Vedute di Roma Antica, e Moderna. Disegnate e Intagliate da Celebri Autori. Rome: for Fausto Amidei, '1748' [but 1750 or later]. Oblong 2° (196 x 272mm). Etched title and 130 plates (?all published), of which 18 signed Piranesi in the engraving, others by Giraud, Carloni, Nicole, Mogalli, Bellicard, Le Geay, and Anesi. (Some light and mostly marginal spotting, occasional light marginal soiling.) 19th-century red half-sheep, sides and spine ruled in gilt, edges and endpapers marbled. Provenance: Ter Horst (bookplate).

PIRANESI -- Varie Vedute di Roma Antica, e Moderna. Disegnate e Intagliate da Celebri Autori. Rome: for Fausto Amidei, '1748' [but 1750 or later]. Oblong 2° (196 x 272mm). Etched title and 130 plates (?all published), of which 18 signed Piranesi in the engraving, others by Giraud, Carloni, Nicole, Mogalli, Bellicard, Le Geay, and Anesi. (Some light and mostly marginal spotting, occasional light marginal soiling.) 19th-century red half-sheep, sides and spine ruled in gilt, edges and endpapers marbled. Provenance: Ter Horst (bookplate).

A survey of the buildings of Rome, including views by Piranesi, which count among his earliest topographical engravings. This edition apparently not in Hind; cf. Jahrbuch 1953.