<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Second and third of 3 volumes in folio. ff. [5], pp. xii, pp. ciiii, pp. 73; ff. [4], pp. xvi, ff. cx, pp. 147, [1]. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Contains numerous engravings: the plates, also head- and tail-pieces, are engraved after Giuseppe Menabuoni by mainly by Vincenzo Franceschini, also by Sante Manelli, Joseph de Benedictis, Giuseppe Benedetti, Jos. Papini, Antonio Pazzi, Carlo Faucci, Bernardo Sansone Sgrilli, Giovanni Medici (signing: Joseph Medici, G. Medici, J. Medici), Ni. Lebrun and Niccolò Mogalli.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of an illustrated overview of Giovanni Batista Passeri's collection of "antique" oil lamps. The collection was famous in its days as the best of its kind, but scholars have subsequently proved Passeri to have been the most gullible of collectors and that his collection consisted almost entirely of fakes.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/t3c16/alma991007282399707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>