PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista ( 1720--1778)
Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto innalzati per la Vittoria ad Actium e conquista dell'Egitto con vari altri ornamenti diligentemente ricavati dagli avanzi più preziosi delle fabbriche antiche di Roma utili a' pittori scultori ed architetti disegnati ed incisi da Giambattista Piranesi architetto Veneziano. Si vendono in Roma da Giovanni Bouchard mercante librajo sul Corso a S. Marcello.
Roma:, nella stamparia di Giovanni Generoso Salmoni,, 1753.
[4] p., [9] etch. pl. (5 double-page) ; 51.5 cm. (2°)

First edition. The double-page letterpress title-page is printed in red and black and reads as above with an etched vignette captioned 'Frammento di uno Scudo caduto da Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto ...' (Focillon 134). This series includes the large view of 'Il Castel dell'Acqua Marcia ...' from the Vedute di Roma (q.v.) in its first published state (Hind 34 i/iv). It was later re-titled 'Veduta dell'Avanza del Castello, che prendendo una porzione de' Acqua Giulia ...'. In this copy the four single-page size plates (with captions engraved on separate coppers) are printed face to face on two double-page leaves

Copy Notes Issued as part of and bound (1) in vol. [II] of a two-volume set of Le magnificenze di Roma (q.v.). Front free-endpaper inscribed in ink TB 408 B1757 and in pencil by a later hand Vol 6. With MS. pagination in faded ink 1--29 top right (on rectos only but including versos in the count). This numbering may be associated with an (early 19th-century?) Italian MS. index loosely inserted in a uniformly-bound six-volume set of the 'Opere di Piranesi' (binder's title), of which the Magnificenze di Roma takes up vols I & II and a copy of Le antichità Romane, 1756 (q.v.) the other four volumes.

Binding C18th calf, gilt roll-tooled borders, gilt tooled spine, black morocco spine labels gilt-lettered 'Opera de Piranesi Vol I (II)', gilt roll-tooled edges.


Reference Number 5941

Additional Names Bouchard, Jean (fl.1751--1803?)