[GALEOTTI, Niccolò]. - Lot 63

[GALEOTTI, Niccolò]. Museum Odescalchum, sive Thesaurus antiquarum gemmarum cum imaginibus in iisdem insculptis, et ex iisdem exsculptis, quae a serenissima Christina svecorum regina collectæ in Museo Odescalcho Rome, Jean Généreux Salomon, 1751-1752 THE COLLECTION OF GEMS, ENGRAVED STONES AND CAMES OF CHRISTINE OF SWEDEN ORIGINAL PART EDITION 2 volumes in 1 folio (340 x 220 mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved vignette on title pages, large engraved headbands and initials. COLLATION and ILLUSTRATION: 2 f. n. e., XLVIII, 60 pp. 49 plates out of text. for volume 1; XVII, 132 pp. e., 55 plates out of text. (miscalculated 53) for volume 2, a total of 104 plates drawn and engraved by Pietro Sante Bartoli. ITALIAN BINDING OF THE PERIOD. Basane, smooth gilt spine, yellow edges. PROVENANCE: "E. D." to the compositor on the first endpaper. Worn binding. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cicognara, no. 2745 -- Vinet, no. 1622: "Bartoli has applied his brilliant and easy talent here; the stones are on a large scale and etched by a burin as supple as a pencil" -- de Backer, 1854, p. 214