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Principali Monumenti di Roma: raccolta delle principali vedute di Roma antica e moderna Roma: 1843. FIRST EDITION of this collection of 37 plates by Moschetti based on drawings by Marchi, Ciconnetti and Zolla “the number of which may vary from one copy to another”, with engraved title page, and 36 copper plates of exteriors and interiors and Roman ruins, including the much sought after plan of Rome. Half leather bound with decorative gilt title and spine. Very good copy.
Cover (slightly rubbed & soiled): 11 1/4 x 16 3/4 in. (28.6 x 42.6 cm).
Internal Sheets (some light foxing): 10 13/16 x 16 3/8 in. (27.5 x 41.5 cm).
Alessandro Moschetti, (active,1828-1860). Italian printmaker specialising in vedute. He published groups of Roman views in the 1840s and 1850s, notably the ‘Nuova raccolta delle vedute di Roma antica e moderna disegnate sul vero da varij artist’, published in Rome in 1843, and the ‘Album delle piu interessanti vedute di Roma’, to which he contributed along with Domenico Amici and Gaetano Cottafavi, published in Rome in 1855.
