PIRANESI. Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura... Lot n° 392

PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de' Romani.Roma, 1761 Large Folio, 560x405 mm. Contemporary full vellum binding painted in green, double gilt rules on covers, spine with 8 ribs and gilt title and ornaments; pp. [2], CCXII, [3], 38 plates numbered I-XXXVIII. Double title page engraved in Latin and Italian, Portrait of Clement XIII, 3 large initials, 2 large illustrations at p. 198 and 199. A total of 41 plates, of which 8 on double leaf and 4 folded. Paper with watermark ‘double circle and lily’. Some marginal foxings and some slight brownings, reinforcements to the plates, beautiful specimen.