PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. 1720-1778.
Varie Vedute di Roma antica, e moderna.... Rome: 1748 [but 1750 or later].
Oblong folio (220 x 330 mm). Engraved title and 93 engraved plates, including 48 by Piranesi, and the remained by Duflos, Le Geay, Bellicard, and Anesi, and others, some unsigned. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Lacking front and rear blanks, repaired perforation in margin of title, 2 plates with portions of lower margin torn away, scattered spotting, staining and fingermarks.

Piranesi's first published prints, which were never republished, although title pages appear variously with the date 1745 or 1748. This work appears in various forms, often with 94 engravings, but varying greatly in content and exact plate count. Focillon 72-119; Hind pp 76-78; Wilton-Ely 51-101.

Rebacked with original spine laid down; lacking front and rear blanks; repaired perforation in margin of title; 2 plates with portions of lower margin torn away (plate 2 'Veduta di S.Giovanni in Laterano' and plate 77 'Il tempio della Pace con la Chiesa di S.Francesca Romana'; scattered spotting, staining and fingermarks.