Author: Abraham Bloteling (1640-1690), after Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711)
Title: [Antique title page, 1725] Pedemontium Florentissimum Italiae Latus, published 1725, 1 p.
Description: Frontispiece of : 'Theatrvm statvvm regiæ celsitvdinis Sabavdiæ dvcis, Pedemontii principis, Cypri regis', published for the first time in Amsterdam in 1682.Signed and dated at bottom: G. Lairesse invent. A Bloteling sculp. / A LA HAYE Chez RUTGERT CHRISTOFFEL ALBERTS 1725. Etching and engraving on paper, with small margins; total: 498 x 327 mm; a tear at bottom repaired on the verso, remargined at bottom; some rubbing and dirt; otherwise in fair condition.

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