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Total number of records: 193

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Books and printed items157
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Brotherton Collection39
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection26
Herbert Read Collection7
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive6
English Literature5
Leeds Russian Archive4
Ripon Cathedral3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Cookery Collection1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1

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architecture21
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Rome (Italy)161
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Forum of Trajan (Rome, Italy)3
France3

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Rossi, Giovanni Battista De14
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)9
Corbett, Spencer8
Frankl, Volfango8
Krautheimer, Richard (1897-1994)8
New York University. Institute of Fine Arts8
Plutarch6
Venuti, Ridolfino (1705-1763)5
Long, George (1800-1879)4
Stewart, Aubrey (1844-1918)4

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Antiquae urbis splendor : hoc est præcipua eiusdem templa, amphitheatra, theatra, circi, naumachiæ, arcus triumphales, mausolea aliaque sumptuosiora ædificia, pompæ item triumphalis et colossæarum imaginum descriptio

Lauro, Giacomo; Alto, Giovanni Ridolfo; Bartoli, Pietro Santi (1635-1700)

Anno S.H. MDCXII [1612-1628 i.e. 1637]

Introduction (1 leaf) in Italian by Giovanni Alto, Svizzero da Lucerna, concludes: In Roma : Appresso Vitale Mascardi, MDCXXXVII. Unnumbered leaf following introduction a port. of Pope Urban VIII, "...

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Vedute di Roma (v. 1)

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)

[1748-1778]

Entirely engraved/etched. Imprint from title page: varies throughout. First issued ca. 1748, but issued with additional plates up to Piranesi's death in 1778, and subsequently; two plates added by...

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Vedute di Roma (v. 2)

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)

[1748-1778]

Entirely engraved/etched. Imprint from title page: varies throughout. First issued ca. 1748, but issued with additional plates up to Piranesi's death in 1778, and subsequently; two plates added by...

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Vedute di Roma

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)

[1748-1778]

Entirely engraved/etched. Imprint from title page: varies throughout. First issued ca. 1748, but issued with additional plates up to Piranesi's death in 1778, and subsequently; two plates added by...

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Roma antica

Nardini, Famiano (1661); Falconieri, Ottavio (1676); Vacca, Flaminio; Frezza, Giovanni Girolamo (1659-1741)

1704

"Discorso d'Ottavio Falconieri intorno alla piramide di C. Cestio... Lettera ... al Signor Carlo Dati sopra l'iscrizione d'un mattone cavato dalle ruine d'un muro antico ... ": p. [557]-583. "Memori...

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