Carracci, Annibale. – L. Pilarchaeus Lot n° 82

Carracci, Annibale. -L. Pilarchaeus (i.e. A. Monsacrati). Aedium Farnesarium tabulae ab Annibale Caraccio. Rome, Monaldinus, 1753. fol. Vortit., tit. w. gest. Vign., 6 vols. with gest. portr., 74 num. pp. with 27 vign. a. 32 gest. initials a. 32 (12 folded). initials and 32 (12 folded) plates. Bindery of the time. strongly rubbed. Cicignara 3376 ("pose grandissima"). UCBA 1, 235. and II, 1591. Bohlin pp. 456ff. - Decoration of the Farnese Gallery with Carracci frescoes, engraved by Carlo Cesio, compare H. Tietze, "Annibale Carracci's Gallery in the Palazzo Farnese" (Thieme/B.: "The most important publication on the Carracci") - Occasionally and only rarely in plates foxing, waterstained at upper margin, exceptionally in the fret, pen-and-ink lines on pretitle, title with collection stamp (Lugt 547?).