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Catalogo dei quadri, dei disegni e dei libri che trattano dell'arte del disegno della galleria del fu Sig. Conte Algarotti in Venezia . [Venice: ca. 1777]. 8°. Engraved headpiece on a2 v. Cicognara 4591. [ Bound with :] Catalogo di quadri raccolti dal fu Signor Maffeo Pinelli ed ora posti in vendita in Venezia 1785 . [Venice: 1785]. 8°. (Most upper margins lightly waterstained.) [ And :] Pitture e scolture nel Palazzo di Casa Grimani a S. t a Maria Formosa . [Venice: ca. 1790]. 8°. Drop-head titles and text in double columns in Italian and French, engraved frontispiece, titles and text begin on p. 3. 3 works in one volume, 8°. Early 19th-century calf-backed boards, gilt spine, yellow edges. Provenance . Girolamo Caratti of Udine (ownership inscription, dated 1811, on an endpaper). An interesting catalogue of the collection formed by the celebrated philosopher and writer on art, Francesco Algarotti, and his brother Bonomo, which the latter's daughter, Maria, donated to the State shortly after his death in 1776. The book section which includes several English titles occupies the last twenty-two pages.