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Sandrart, Joachim de (1606-1688) Sculpturae Veteris Admiranda. Nuremberg: Typis Chirstiani Sigismundi Frobergii, sumtibus Autoris; Frankfurt: apud Michaelem & Joh. Fridericum Endteros, ac Johannem de Sandrart, 1680. First edition, folio, half-title present, with engraved vignette to title, full-page engraved portrait of dedicatee, large woodcut tail-pieces, and sixty-eight of seventy full-page engravings (lacking plates 66 and 67, and text for plate 66),ex libris William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam, with his bookplate inside the front board, old boards, rebacked, front board detached, 15 x 9 1/2 in.
Estimate $300-500
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