Sanquirico, Alessandro SCENE ESEGUITE PEL MELODRAMMA SERIO L'ULTIMO GIORNO DI POMPEI [...]; RACCOLTA DI VARIE DECORAZIONI SCENICHE INVENTATE, E DIPINTE DAL PITTORE ALESSANDRO SANQUIRICO PER L'I.R. TEATRO DELLA SCALA IN MILANO, [MILAN, C.1827] FIRST EDITION, 72 leaves, large oblong folio (39.2 x 47cm), watermarked: "J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1824 [...1827]", 2 calligraphic title-pages, 70 finely-coloured aquatints, including neo-classical frontispiece, 7 plates illustrating scenes from Giovanni Pacini's opera L'ultimo giorno di Pompei, and 62 illustrating scenes from operas by Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer and ballets, by Carlo Sanquirico Castellini, Diastoli, Carolina Latose and others after Alessandro Sanquirico interleaved throughout with original watermarked tissue guards, contemporary cross-grained red morocco gilt, Greek-key panels, thin serrated fillets, the outer frame with neo-classical roundels, leafy margins & turn-ins, flat spine gilt in compartments, with simple intersecting geometrical devices, brown endpapers, stubs from wrappers, corners and spine worn at head and foot, a few light stains in the margins, legend to Mayr's "La Fedra" rather faint, small tear to margin of "Numa Pompilio" repaired on verso
Sanquirico, Alessandro SCENE ESEGUITE PEL MELODRAMMA SERIO L'ULTIMO GIORNO DI POMPEI [...]; RACCOLTA DI VARIE DECORAZIONI SCENICHE INVENTATE, E DIPINTE DAL PITTORE ALESSANDRO SANQUIRICO PER L'I.R. TEATRO DELLA SCALA IN MILANO, [MILAN, C.1827] FIRST EDITION, 72 leaves, large oblong folio (39.2 x 47cm), watermarked: "J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1824 [...1827]", 2 calligraphic title-pages, 70 finely-coloured aquatints, including neo-classical frontispiece, 7 plates illustrating scenes from Giovanni Pacini's opera L'ultimo giorno di Pompei, and 62 illustrating scenes from operas by Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer and ballets, by Carlo Sanquirico Castellini, Diastoli, Carolina Latose and others after Alessandro Sanquirico interleaved throughout with original watermarked tissue guards, contemporary cross-grained red morocco gilt, Greek-key panels, thin serrated fillets, the outer frame with neo-classical roundels, leafy margins & turn-ins, flat spine gilt in compartments, with simple intersecting geometrical devices, brown endpapers, stubs from wrappers, corners and spine worn at head and foot, a few light stains in the margins, legend to Mayr's "La Fedra" rather faint, small tear to margin of "Numa Pompilio" repaired on verso
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