Circo Agonale Di Roma Restituito Allantica Forma Con Illuminazioni E Macchine Artificiali Dalle

by Rome Festivals

$3,800 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

First edition

FIRST EDITION. Bound in later carta rustica. A fine, fresh copy on crisp paper. Very faint soiling to upper margin. A large historiated initial, decorative head- and tail-pieces. With the arms of Cardinal Polignac on the title page. A very rare account of the elaborate transformation of Piazza Navona to celebrate the birth of the Dauphin Louis, son of King Louis XV of France 1715-1774 and his royal consort

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