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[Archeology/Rome] Guasco, Francesco Eugenio: The funeral rites of pagan Rome described by Francesco Eugenio Guasco. In Lucca, for Filippo Maria Benedini, 1758
Format in-4°, mm. 290x220, pp. xxiii, 160, xix. Complete. Engraving frontispiece by Pietro Perfetti. Contemporary hardback. Copy missing the spine with loose binding and partially detached front hinge. Sporadic foxing.
Old edition printed in Lucca in 1758 for Filippo Maria Benedini, work of the Italian historian Francesco Eugenio Guasco (1725-1798), with 11 figures engraved in chalcography in the text depicting the various instruments for the rites of the ancient Romans (burial axe, cinerary urn, gestatorial chair, pyre, torches, aspergillum and others). Large woodcut frieze on the frontispiece. Headers, initials and endpieces in woodcut.
Old edition printed in Lucca in 1758 for Filippo Maria Benedini, work of the Italian historian Francesco Eugenio Guasco (1725-1798), with 11 figures engraved in chalcography in the text depicting the various instruments for the rites of the ancient Romans (burial axe, cinerary urn, gestatorial chair, pyre, torches, aspergillum and others). Large woodcut frieze on the frontispiece. Headers, initials and endpieces in woodcut.
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