[RUPP, Ladislao (1793-1854)]

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Lot 258 | [RUPP, Ladislao (1793-1854)]
[RUPP, Ladislao (1793-1854)]

Raccolta di ventiquattro vedute di Milano dedicate AS.A.I.R.L'Arciduca Ranieri Viceré del regno Lombardo Veneto. Milan: Paolo Andrea Molina, 1833.

A beautiful series of views devoted to Milan, dedicated to The Archduke Ranieri Viceroy of the Lombardo-Veneto kingdom, with two additional plates. The plates illustrate Milan's most celebrated buildings and monuments, brought to life with the incorporation of people, details and activities of everyday street life in Milan at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Bobins IV, 1469.



Folio (471 x 368mm). 26 engraved plates finely coloured by a contemporary hand in watercolour and gouache, heightened with gum arabic, each plate mounted on blue paper with contemporary hand-coloured borders and each with printed caption on the mount (occasional spotting, finger-soiling, marking to hand-painted blue paper). Contemporary calf-backed brown cloth boards, gilt decoration to boards, flat spine lettered and tooled in gilt, (extremities lightly rubbed) original printed buff wrappers bound in. Provenance: Silvii Zipoli (bookplate on front pastedown) — Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Milano (small bookseller's label).





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