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More than engravings representing Antique, mythological and allegorical subjects. 16th-18th c Various sizes and margins, pasted by corners or edges on vellum paper ff. (occ. (bad) stains, water stains, fox., tears, lacks of paper, folds, traces of dust, of glue, etc.). Bound in one vol., x cm, modern quarter black shagreen (sl. rubbed), paper label titled "Antiquités. Mythologiae. Allegories" on upper cover, flat blind spine. Good general condition. Beautiful collection of engravings from various schools, including some suites or parts of suites. Perrier, François - [Bas-reliefs of the Arch of Constantine in Rome], pl., n. 27-- Georg Martin Preisler - Statuae insignores [...] in italico itinere delineatae, pl. incl. title. - Domenico Maria Bonaveri - 4 pl. designed by Giovanni Battista Vanni after a ceiling painted by Antonio Allegri da Corregio. - Pieter Tanjé - 4 pl. after Gerard de Lairesse. - Domenico Cunego - 5 pl. after Giovanni Lanfranco - Carlo Cesio - 8 pl. after Giovanni Lanfranco representing the frescoes in the dome of S. Andrea della Valle, n. 1-8 (complete). - Theodor Krüger - 5 pl. after Andrea del Sarto - Gilles Rousselet & Abraham Bosse - 9 pl. after Claude Vignon - Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel - 3 pl. publ. by Johann Gradmann. - Pietro Parboni - pl. after Gaspare Possino [Gaspard Dughet] representing frescoes in the church of S. Martino ai Monti in Rome (all pl. with a central vertical tear). - Philips Galle - plates after Jan van der Straet [Stradanus] incl. title "Mediceae familiae rerum feliciter gestarum victoriae et triumphi, and pl. n. 1-the other pl. not numb. - Pietro Santi Bartoli - pl., most publ. by J. de Rubeis in Rome, representing bas-reliefs of various Antique monuments. - Johanna Sybilla Kräusen - 7 allegorical pl. representing French tapestries to the glory of Louis XIV (central fold or tear). - Reinier Vinkeles - 8 pl., probably illustrations for a book by Wagenaar. - Suite of pl. after the Sixtine ceiling. With also engravings by, after or published by J.-Ch. Le Vasseur, Cl. Mellan, Fr. Tortebat, M. Dorigny, P. Aquila, G. de Jode, Visscher, Hermann Muller, Duflos, Audran, Le Pautre, members of the Sadeler family, S. Vouët, L. Baldi, H. Vredeman de Vries, Maarten de Vos, Fr. Floris, Poussin, Caracci... and some pl. not signed or not identified. Prov. Vallis dei i.e. the Cistercian Val-Dieu Abbey (bookplate).