[MORCELLI, Stefano Antonio]. - Lot 123

[MORCELLI, Stefano Antonio]. Indicazione Antiquaria per la Villa suburbana dell'eccellentissima casa Albani Rome, Vincenzo Poggioli, 1803 DESCRIPTION OF EACH WORK, ROOM BY ROOM, FLOOR BY FLOOR, IN THE VILLA ALBANI. ABUNDANTLY ANNOTATED EXEMPLAIR BY AN AMATEUR OF THE TIME Second edition, enlarged In-8 (210 x 140 mm) COLLATION AND ILLUSTRATION: VI pp, 200 pp, engraved vignette on title page signed DPF ANNOTATION: prices inscribed in the margins by a contemporary hand, in brown ink CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Speckled brown basane, spine gilt and decorated with small irons. PROVENANCE : Marquis Giuseppe Arconati Visconti (1797-1883; wet stamp) The original edition was published in 1785. This later edition contains 42 additional pages of text under the title "appendix". The Villa Albani was completed in 1763 for Cardinal Alessandro Albani, nephew of Clement XI. It housed his collections of antiquities and sculptures, which had been catalogued by Johann Joachim Winckelmann. BIBLIOGRAPHY : Anthony M. Clark, The Development of the collections and Museums of 18th Century Rome in Art Journal, vol. 26 n° 2 pp. 136-143 -- Rosetti, Rome, 4863 & 7192 -- Melzi II, 29 -- Olschli 17620 -- Kissner catalog no. 721 (with Carlo Fea as author)