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[TORNIERI, Arnaldo (1739-1829)]

Lot 198
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 198 | [TORNIERI, Arnaldo (1739-1829)]
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£ 3 000 – 5 000
[TORNIERI, Arnaldo (1739-1829)]

La corsa delle slitte in Vicenza. Vicenza: Giovanni Vendramini Mosca, for Giacomo Leoni, 1784.

An exceptionally rare edition of this delightful publication issued as a souvenir of a Vicenza winter carnival of 1784, depicting the lively sled procession. It is also celebrated for including a sled attached to a hot air balloon – in the same year as hot air balloons were tested in Italy for the first time. Melzi identifies the author of this work as Count Arnaldo Tornieri who appears in the carnival, riding the sledge attached to the hot air balloon on the final plate. The plates illustrate thirty figures on horse-drawn carnivalesque sleds, numbered in the plate, each one identified in an index in the text (Barbarani, Trissino, Verlate, Vello, Caldogne, Burri, Bissari etc.). It seems very few copies were issued as they were intended as a souvenir for the 30 distinguished participants of the carnival. Bobins V, 1517; Melzi, v. 1, p.258.



Octavo (193 x 135).16 folding engraved plates coloured by a contemporary hand and highlighted in gold and silver (light water-stain to lower outer corner of a few text leaves, a little dust-soiled in places). Contemporary mottled paper boards, covers with gilt border, fleurons gilt to corners (gilding a little faded, corners slightly worn, spine a little chipped).





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