PIRANESI (Giovanni Battista Piranesi, known as). *Descrizione e disegno dell' emissario del lago Albano*. No place, no date [Rome, c. 1762]. Folio, modern…

PIRANESI (Giovanni Battista Piranesi, known as). *Descrizione e disegno dell' emissario del lago Albano*. No place, no date [Rome, c. 1762]. Folio, modern Bradel-style cardboard binding. First edition, featuring a frontispiece and 9 beautiful double-page plates engraved on copper by Piranesi. (Focillon, nos. 480–491.) Description of the emissario del lago Albano (the Albano outlet), an underground tunnel bored through volcanic rock in the 4th century B.C. to supply water to the countryside ar

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