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Large tipped-in plates depicting facades, plans and cross-sections of Milanese buildings. Large topographical map of Milan folded several times and 44 plates engraved in copper and folded drawn by Seiller. Beautiful woodcut frontispiece. Genuine and margined copy, in excellent condition. In untrimmed beards.
The city described in all its parts.
"The book is valuable for the copiousness of the information, the accuracy, the good aesthetic references and the familiar and clear style" - Cicognara. First edition, not common to find complete in the iconographic apparatus.
Edited by Serviliano Latuada (or Lattuada) (Milan, 1704 - Milan, 1764), Italian writer and historian from Milan. "The book is the most valuable of the eighteenth century for the copiousness of the information, the accuracy, the good aesthetic references and the familiar and clear style" - Cicognara, 4242. Cfr. Schlosser, 494. Predari 13; Fossati-Bellani II, 1938.
CONTENTS
Extremely rare. Perfect copy, very margined, beards not trimmed. Barbe copy of this first edition accompanied by the topographical plan of the city of Milan folded several times, the plan of the Duomo and 44 plates. It is a complete repertoire of the history of Milan, its buildings and monuments.
It is a fundamental work for the study of eighteenth-century Milan and a source, albeit complex in its reading, of detailed information on the architecture of that city in the Austrian era.
CONDITION REPORT
5 Volumes: I - Pp. 336, II - pp. 348, III - pp. 338, IV - pp. 459, V - pp. 448. Rustic hardcover binding, marbled paper, with individual rigid slipcase for each volume. Gold title on spine. Large plates including the large topographic map of the city, drawn by Ferroni and engraved by Schiller, which depict facades, plans and cross-sections of Milanese buildings. Beautiful woodcut frontispiece. Genuine and margined copy, in excellent condition. In untrimmed beards.
Booklet to the first and fourth volumes, copper engraved frontispiece, title pages with woodcut vignette, large topographical map of Milan Cathedral folded several times and 44 copper engraved and folded plates drawn by Seiller with instructions to the bookbinder as often happens, folded map with some tears, occasional light browning.
Modern paper covered with marbled paper with gilt label on the spine, in beards, in paper slipcases.
Provenance: Emilio De Marchi Gherini (stamp).
FULL TITLE & AUTHORS
Description of Milan: adorned with many copper designs of the most conspicuous factories, which are found in this metropolis, collected and ordered by Serviliano Latuada, a Milanese priest.
In Milan, at the expense of Giuseppe Cairoli Book dealer, 1737
Servilianus Latuada 67241125
