Costumes de Rome et de Naples.

£12,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books · No longer available

A Fine album of watercolours of Rome and Naples each signed by Ruspi. Ruspi trained at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome where he was active in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Folio (49 x 36 cm); album of 47 watercolours signed by Ruspi and a frontispiece of Pope Pius IX signed by E. Belli; contemporary dark green leather binding, gilt title to cover, initials B.B. to back cover, spine in seven parts, binding slightly rubbed, some minor foxing but otherwise very fresh.

• Binding: Hardcover

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