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Title: Memorie per le belle arti. Tomo 1, 2 & 3. In 3 volumes.
Description: Roma, Nella Stamperia Pagliarini, MDCCLXXXV / 1785-86-87, in-4to, illustrated with 11 folded plates (copper-engravings), vellum bindings, gilt title on spines, light rubbing and staining, red and blue marbled edges. ¶ Three years, vol. 1, 2 & 3, of this series on art published twice or three times a month, 1785, 1786, 1787, with contributions regarding the state and the progress of the fine arts, particularly on painting, sculpture, engraving, architecture, poetry, and music. Each volume with index of subjects and names of artists and authors. Collation: IV + 2 leaves (Indice, the same as the one bound at the end of this volume, here bound in between title and preface) + 208 p. (of 210: missing p. 183/184) + 102 p. / 2 leaves + 306 p. (4 leaves misbound = p. 131-138 bound after p. 146) / 1 leaf + 240 p. (recte 242: p. nr. 249-250 figures twice) + in all with 11 folded engraved plates (mainly plans of buildings), foxing and browning in places, waterstain in first six leaves of 3rd vol., insignif. light waterstain in just a few page margins, corner of one endleaf torn off, Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.

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