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Important Historical Architectural Photo Album in Deluxe Presentation Binding) Costruzione Del Ponte Monumentale "Umberto I" in Torino

Important Historical Architectural Photo Album in Deluxe Presentation Binding) Costruzione Del Ponte Monumentale "Umberto I" in Torino

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Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
Title
Important Historical Architectural Photo Album in Deluxe Presentation Binding) Costruzione Del Ponte Monumentale "Umberto I" in Torino
Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good Minus
Description
Torino (Turin, Italy) 1903-1907: Impresa Allegri & Co., 1907. Book. Very Good Minus. Leather. Oblong Folio. Collection of 29 original photographs, ( two - 8 3/4" x 6" and 27- 6 1/4" x 4 1/2") applied on 15 thick card leaves, titles written in white ink directly under photos, one blank leaf each front and back. The photographs detailing the construction of the Umberto I Bridge over the Po River at Turin, 1903-1907 ( the bridge was completed with the addition of the statue groups by Rubino and Reduzzi in 1911). Bound in oblong leather folio, 13" h x 16 1/2" w, with presentation in gilt front cover -"Al Marchese Francesco Medici Deputato al Parlamento" - followed by title and publisher in gilt. front cover with gilt decorations, ornate 1" wide gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Very Good Minus, missing 2/3 of the leather at spine, boards rubbed, soiling and staining to end pages, the leaves darkened at edges, the photographs all in Very Good condition with some rubbing. Designed by the Florentine architects Vincenzo Micheli and Enrico Ristori to replace the suspended metal bridge named after Maria Teresa and constructed over the period 1903-1907. The bridge was dedicated 26 May 1907. This copy with 29 photographs comparable to that held by the library of the Polytechnic of Turin, there was also a like-bound version with only 15 photographs. Francesco Medici (1847-1911) was an Italian politician and engineer who played a prominent role in the construction of this bridge. F. CORRADINI, 1907; C. FIORIO, 1907; M. LEVA PISTOI, 1969. pp. 185-186; M. MAFFIOLI, 1978, pp. 32 ff Table: 49-50.
Εικων Βασιλικη. The Portraictvre of His Sacred Maiestie in His Solidvdes and Svfferings

Εικων Βασιλικη. The Portraictvre of His Sacred Maiestie in His Solidvdes and Svfferings by (Charles I, or John Gauden)

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Εικων Βασιλικη. The Portraictvre of His Sacred Maiestie in His Solidvdes and Svfferings
Author
(Charles I, or John Gauden)
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
n.p. (London): n.d. (Richard Roylston), 1648. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 112mo. Folding frontispiece. (viii), 269pp. Recent black leather, gilt spine title, and gilt crown and 'C.R.' on the upper board. Textblock generally soiled, and with stains form old tape marks, but still in good condition. The second issue, with the place of publication and publisher removed from the title page, but with the misnumbering on section G uncorrected. The frontispiece in state 'a, ii' with the pattern in the roof above the inscription similar to that in the remaining panels, the right edge of the window cutting the 'c' of 'specto', and with three plants to the left of the palm tree top. This state, according to Maden, appeared within a few days of the King's death. Maden, I, second issue. .

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