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Sugli obelischi Torlonia nella villa Nomentana : ragionamento storico-critico / di Francesco Gasparoni.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio DT62.O2 G2 1842
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gasparoni, Francesco, -1865.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Obelisks--Italy--Rome.
- Obelisks.
- Engraving, Italian.
- Italy--Rome.
- Penn Provenance:
- Torlonia (armorial binding)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 81 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, map ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Roma : Nella Tipografia Salviucci, 1842.
- Notes:
- Concerns two obelisks of granite from the Alps erected in memory of Giovanni Torlonia, duke of Baracciano, and his wife.
- "Sugli oblischi egizj rialzati dai pontefici in Roma," p. [71]-81.
- Illustrations: 18 full-page, or larger, engravings by Gaetano Cottafavi, depicting the construction, transport and erection of the Torlonia obelisks.
- Local Notes:
- Seal of Torlonia family on binding.
- OCLC:
- 24050447
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