Neal Auction 2012

W denotes the lot is illustrated at www.nealauction.com 33 113. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720- 1778) , Antichita d’Albano e di Castel Gandalfo... , bound together with Descrizione e Disegno dell’Emissario del Lago Albano... , c. 1800, large folio, first Paris edition, with 51 plates (includes frontispieces), many folding or double-page, no text, birdcage watermark, full calf with gilt tooling by Tessier, Paris, the first pastedown with manuscript list of plates in old hand. $4000/6000 Reference: Wilton-Ely, pgs. 668-727, watermark, pg. 1178. 114. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720- 1778) , “Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzio”, c. 1774, Rome, engraved map on three joined sheets, folded, 53 in. x 30 3/8 in., WE 1008, watermark Robison 36. $2000/3000 115. Giacomo Barozzio da Vignola (1507- 1573) , Regola de’ Cinque Ordini d’Architettura... Con la nuova aggionta di Michael-Angelo Buonaroti , 1642, printed by Ian Iansz, Amsterdam, folio (16 in. x 10 1/2 in.), old calf, with restored spine, raised bands, gilt title, in two parts; first part with title and preface in 5 languages, portrait frontispiece, 42 plates; second part with 70 plates with engraved title page showing five architects. $1200/1800 116. Niccola Zabaglia (1664-1750) , Castelli e ponti...con alcune ingegnose pratiche, e con la descrizione del trasporto dell’obelisco Vaticano , 1743, first edition, folio (19 in. x 14 in.), full vellum, title and dedication in Latin and Italian, portrait of Zabaglia, with 54 engraved plates, many fold-out (4 double-page), by Vasi, Specchi and others after Rostagni and Fontana. $2000/3000 Provenance: Henry Southeran Limited, Antiquarian Booksellers, London, 1994. Note: A fundamental work both in the building history of St. Peter’s and more generally, for the study of early engineering. Showing the restoration of buildings and of engineering in the 18th century, the volume is one of few to give an aspect to the technical construction of the great buildings of Rome. It also depicts the moving of the obelisk of Augustus. 113 115 116 114