Following these plates are the Grotteschi, four fantastic scenes published for the first time in 1750 following Piranesi's return to Venice in the late 1740s. The Prima Parte, when first published in Rome in 1743, was the first of Piranesi's collected works and included 12 plates when forming part of the Opere Varie, Piranesi added five plates while removing another. The volume opens with the Prima Parte showing imaginary adaptations and reconstructions on classical Roman themes and ranging in scope from designs for a museum of sculpture to the interiors and exteriors of palaces, views of colonnades, architectural ruins and so on. The watermarks -where visible - conform to Robison 35, dating to the early 1760s. The Grotteschi are in second state (1 plate) or third state (3 plates) the Carceri are second edition, second issue with numbering in Roman numerals The Trofei di Ottavio Augusto are present in the first edition. The album contains very good impressions of Piranesi's etchings: this is an early Roman edition corresponding to Hind's edition B (1761 or after), and Robison's second edition (produced in 1761). Printed in Piranesi's lifetime under his supervision. An outstanding album incorporating much of Piranesi's most extraordinary and finest work. First edition, (1748), 30 engraved plates (including 2 titles, dedication, and 2 plates of inscriptions), eighteenth-century half calf, marbled boards, neat repairs to joints and extremities, a very handsome collection. Antichita Romane de' Tempi della Republica. Salmoni, 1753, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, and 8 (of 9) unnumbered plates, 4 double-page, lacking one plate (the view of the Castello), title spotted. double-page engraved title, and 15 double-page plates (numbered II-XVI).

These 2 plates are here unnumbered, for later versions of the 1761 issue these plates have numbers added. & Parte di ampio magnifico Porto: A single plate, fourth state (of eight). Opere varie: title printed in red and black with engraved vignette (Robison's second issue), Prima Parte, second edition, second issue, engraved frontispiece, and 16 plates, complete 10 plates on 5 sheets from the Opere Varie Two single plates: Pianta di ampio magnifico Collegio: A single plate, third state (of seven). Four works in one volume, large folio (53 x 39.5 cm).

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