VISENTINI, Antonio. Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores ex Antonii Canal Tabulis XL.Venezia, Teodoro Viero,verso il 1780.
Estimation :
10 000 € / 25 000 -
Description
Oblung folio, mm. 334x489; Binding in half calf with corners and label on the front cover fo the gilded title; Titlepge with Vignette, titlepage of the FIRST EDITION engraved on copper, double portrait of Canal and Visentini; plates numbered I-XIV, 1-12, I-XII; 1 leaf nn. “Tabularum series”.
A total of 40 copper plates. Sheet mm. 332x482; lastra mm. 274x425. Ex libris Charles Filippi.
BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN With the complete set of views of Venice engraved by Visentini taken from Canaletto's paintings. This is the fifth edition, published by Viero around the ninth decade of the eighteenth century. The first title page bears a curious copper engraving with a winged horse and a vedutina Venice a bird; the title page of the 1742 edition, copper is engraved on vergellata card. Exemplary belonged to the collector Charles Filippi, whose prestigious library was auctioned in France in 1994.
Succi, pp. 420-21.
Nice specimen.
A total of 40 copper plates. Sheet mm. 332x482; lastra mm. 274x425. Ex libris Charles Filippi.
BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN With the complete set of views of Venice engraved by Visentini taken from Canaletto's paintings. This is the fifth edition, published by Viero around the ninth decade of the eighteenth century. The first title page bears a curious copper engraving with a winged horse and a vedutina Venice a bird; the title page of the 1742 edition, copper is engraved on vergellata card. Exemplary belonged to the collector Charles Filippi, whose prestigious library was auctioned in France in 1994.
Succi, pp. 420-21.
Nice specimen.
