Liberotti Impronte spine label title

by Kentucky Provenence, Giovanni Liberotti, Italy Art

$450 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Rome, Italy: Incisore di Camei Roma , nd ca. 1820 . Tall 8vo. A double-side box containing 28 plaster casts based on contemporary and classical cameos from various Italian museums, each described in ink on manuscript pastedowns, front and back. Sold by Liberotti as souvenirs, “the Grand Tour offered another very popular type of travel souvenir, the now nearly forgotten cameos, or engraved gems of the eighteenth century. Such objects of vertu originated in

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