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[Italy]. [Album of architectural studies and designs], c.1812-27, 18 wove-paper leaves each with architectural sketch recto in pen and ink, pencil and grisaille or bistre wash, captions and annotations in black ink, 4 leaves blank, contemporary Italian half vellum, marbled sides, shelf-mark label to spine, oblong 4to (24.4 x 19 cm), together with: [France & Italy], [Manuscript journal of a tour through France and Italy], 1822-3, including Paris, Turin, Alessandria, Lucca, Buggiano, Florence, Rome, Naples, Herculaneum, and Terracina, [120] pp., ownership inscription 'Mary Ranson Bush, Lyons, France, Novr 30th 1822' to front pastedown, laid-in manuscript letter to Cecil H. Clough on Warburg Institute letterhead identifying the sitter as the subject of 'Hakewill's engraving', contemporary roan-backed boards, rubbed and worn, sides cockled, oblong 8vo (21 x 12.4 cm), [Genoa], 'Introduction à l'histoire de la famille D'Oria, de Gènes', 1844, manuscript in black ink on light blue wove paper, 31 leaves, written mainly rectos only, hand-painted illuminated coat of arms on leaf of thicker paper stock, initial blank annotated 'I copied this M.S. at Florence in the month of May 1844 from the original M.S. sent to me by the author Count Gräberg de Hemsö, librarian of the Pitti Palace. F. C. Brooke', contemporary Italian half vellum, 8vo (19.8 x 13 cm), and 1 other item (album of pencil sketches including views of Dover, 1907, front cover detached) (Qty: 4) Provenance: First item only: Thomas Ashby (1874-1931), British archaeologist in Italy and director of the British School at Rome (bookplate, annotated 'Vespignani sale, March /00, 957, 16-50'; the note may refer to Italian neoclassical architect Virginio Vespignani (1808-1882)). All items: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), reader in medieval history, University of Liverpool. The first item contains two studies of fountains at the villa d'Este in Tivoli but mainly contains designs for submission to the Accademia di San Luca and other purposes, with captions as follows: 'Progetto d’un eremo per un religioso, presentato alla Accademia della pace l’anno 1812'; 'Idea per riduzione d’una sala … nell’Accademia Romana di S. Luca, ad uso della pubblicita premazioni, presentato all’Accademia de S. Luca l’anno 1814'; 'Altra idea par la sudetta sala all’istasio uso, presentato all’Ac[c]ademia d S. Luca l’anno 1814'; 'Idea per l’aspetto d’una piccolo casa private, fatto per eseguire in l’anno 1815'; 'Memoria da erigersi sopra una sepottura con l’appoggio alla parete che forma recinto dell’arca[?] [...] la Chiesa di Cavallere nel Tivolo, fatta per eseguire l’anno 1816'; 'Tinello con sala di ricreazione al di sopra, seguita su la vetta di una collina presso la Magliana per il Sig. Lugi Righetti l'anno 1827'.