ID 610102
Lot 215 | PORTOLANI
Estimate value
€ 300 – 500
A lot of two 19th-century portolans including a late edition of the successful work by Roux which went through numerous reprints between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century
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Oblong 4to (165 x 222mm). Engraved title, an unnumbered folding plate, 179 numbered plates, one plate from another edition (1833), index table (title and some other leaves reinforced, restoration to the first folding leaf, slight dampstain at the lower right margin that causes some small loss, index and title more heavilly affected, almost imperceptible wormhole between plates 150 and 161). Binding of the first half of the 19th-century backed in leather, title and decorations in gold and blind (some chipping to marbled paper covers). Provenance: Arnaldo Miniati (stamp); Giuseppe Orlando (bookplate).
[TOGETHER WITH:] - LAMBERTI, Luigi. Raccolta dei più interessanti Piani dei Porti e delle Prade dei Mari. Mediterraneo, Adriatico, Archipelago. Nuova edizione. Livorno: 1868. 2 volumes, 8vo oblong (211 x 285mm). Titles within decorated borders, 233 nautical charts: first volume with 122 plates numbered 1-115 which include platess bis 71, 72, 75, 85, 88, 102, 103 - second volume with 111 plates numbered 1-110 including plate bis 2 (some staining, heavier at the beginning of vol. II). Contemporary marbled boards with cloth corners and spine (some wear to joints, some scuffing, spine of second volume partially detached). Provenance: Giuseppe Orlando (bookplate. (3)
Auction house category: | Books, manuscripts and engravings |
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Auction house category: | Books, manuscripts and engravings |
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Address of auction |
Il Ponte Casa d'Aste Via Pontaccio 12 20121 Milano Italy | |
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