Neal Auction 2012

42 148. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778) , Lapides Capitolni sive Fasti Consulares Triumphalesq. Romanorum... , c. 1762, engravings, loose, no binding, title page, frontispiece, preface and 61 pgs. text,, includes WE 553-557, no other plates. $500/700 W 149. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778) , Le Rovine del Castello dell’Acqua Giulia situato in Roma... , 1761, Rome, folio (21 in. x 15 3/4 in.), half-title, title page, text, 19 plates, disbound, modern green, cloth- covered portfolio with ties, WE 529-552, watermark Robison 35. $600/900 150. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778) , “Veduta dell’Antiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo”, c. 1800, first Paris Edition, sheet 21 1/8 in. x 29 1/4 in., WE 259; together with “Veduta del Palazzo Stopani”, first state, sheet 21 in. x 30 in., WE 261, Robison 40. $800/1200 151. Giovanni Battista Montano (1534-1621) , a group of 40 bound architectural engravings, c. 1624, 4to (13 3/4 in. x 9 1/2 in.), full vellum, the plates are early variations that correspond to plates in Raccolta de tempii e sepolri , Scielta d. varii tempietti antichi , and Architettura con diversi ornamenti cavati dall’ antico . $800/1200 Provenance: Bears armorial bookplate of Fuerstlich Auerspergsche Fideicommisbibliothek Zu Laybach , Prince of Augsburg. 146. Augostino Veneziano (de Musi) (Italian, c. 1490- 1540) , “The Climbers”, engraving after Michelangelo’s drawing for the Palazzo Vecchio, monogrammed and dated 1524, published c. 1773 by Carlo Losi, Rome, laid paper, with fleur-de-lis in double-circle watermark, collector’s stamp “VC”, and old inscription, verso, plate 13 in. x 17 1/8 in. $600/900 147. Francesco Piranesi (Italian, 1756-1810) , Raccolta de’ Tempi Antichi , 1780, Rome, Part One, with title, frontispiece, preface, text, with 19 (of 21) plates, lacking 3 & 5, ten are double-page, includes the famous view of the Temple of Sibyl, along with the similarly large view of the capital and entablature of that structure, loose, in a modern green, cloth- covered portfolio with ties. $600/900 Note: Francesco Piranesi, eldest son and heir of Giovanni was but 20 years old at the time of his father’s death in 1778. He produced this first part of a projected volume on temples quickly to assure his position. The plates on the temple of Sibyl are brilliantly conceived and project the son’s considerable talent. 146 147 (1 of 19) 150 (1 of 2) 148 151