Accession number
PML 152813
Creator
Zocchi, Giuseppe, 1711-1767.
Published
New York : Walker and Company, 1967.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Title information from accompanying brochure.
Accompanying brochure includes a preface by Bates Lowry, commentary on the plates written by James S. Ackerman, Robin Jones and Franklin Toker, and notes on the prints by Eleanor M. Garvey.
"Zocchi monogram on back cover from the drawing for Plate I, courtesy of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York."--Verso of booklet's t.p.
Plate XV, misnumbered XIV.
Reproductions of engravings by Marcantonio Corsi, Vincenzo Franceschini, Baldassare Gabbuggiani, Carlo Gregori, Michele Marieschi, Pietro Monaco, Filippo Morghen, Johann Sebastian Muller, Giuseppe Papini, Pier Antonio Pazzi, Johann Andreas Pfeffel the Elder, Johann Gottfried Seuter, Bernardo Sgrilli, Giuseppe Vasi, Giuseppe Zocchi.
Library's copy numbered 495, with a 4-page prospectus advertising the book as 'Eighteenth Century Views of Florence' and 2 circular letters promoting the publication from Bates Lowry and Jacqueline Kennedy laid in to booklet.
Accompanying brochure includes a preface by Bates Lowry, commentary on the plates written by James S. Ackerman, Robin Jones and Franklin Toker, and notes on the prints by Eleanor M. Garvey.
"Zocchi monogram on back cover from the drawing for Plate I, courtesy of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York."--Verso of booklet's t.p.
Plate XV, misnumbered XIV.
Reproductions of engravings by Marcantonio Corsi, Vincenzo Franceschini, Baldassare Gabbuggiani, Carlo Gregori, Michele Marieschi, Pietro Monaco, Filippo Morghen, Johann Sebastian Muller, Giuseppe Papini, Pier Antonio Pazzi, Johann Andreas Pfeffel the Elder, Johann Gottfried Seuter, Bernardo Sgrilli, Giuseppe Vasi, Giuseppe Zocchi.
Library's copy numbered 495, with a 4-page prospectus advertising the book as 'Eighteenth Century Views of Florence' and 2 circular letters promoting the publication from Bates Lowry and Jacqueline Kennedy laid in to booklet.
Description
1 portfolio (27 plates) : illustrations, map ; 46 x 59 cm + 1 booklet ([2], 3-29, [1] pages ; 28 cm)
Provenance
Julia P. Wightman (her bookplate).
Summary
A facsimile reproducing the title page, dedication page, and 24 plates of the 1754 edition, and a reproduction of the 1755 ed. of Ferdinando Ruggieri's map (Pianta della città di Firenze), published for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) in response to the 1966 flood of the Arno.
Binding
Publisher's beige buckram portfolio with printed paper label.
Classification
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