£200
Italy, Florence & the Medici. Regiae familiae Mediceorum Etruriae principum effigies, extra-illustrated copy, s.l., s.n., n.d., [Firenze: Typographia Allegrini, c. 1730/40], a large-margined copy, rubricated and etched allegorical title-page, illustrated with 46 portraits after various Old Masters, 43 of which are engraved by Adriaen Haelwegh, with 3 earlier engravings by Francesco Allegrini, the broad outer-margins numbered in ink manuscript from 1-46, in a contemporary fine binding of Italian two-tone speckled brown and onlays of tan calf gilt, the covers centred by a now indistinct armorial supralibros, seven-compartment spine, raised bands enclosing gilt fleurons, contemporary speckled edges, folio (47.5 x 37.5cm)
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