Andrea Chiesa Rome - Tiber - Chiesa, Andrea -... Lot 367

Andrea Chiesa Rome - Tiber - Chiesa, Andrea - Of the causes and remedies of the flooding of the Tiber. Of the supreme difficulty of introducing a happy, and stable navigation from Ponte Nuovo under Perugia to the mouth of the Nera in the Tiber, and of the way of making it navigable within Rome. In Rome, Nella Stamperia di Antonio de' Rossi, 1746. Folio (410×270 mm.), pp. 119. Complete with all six fold-out plates. On frontispiece copperplate engraving with coat of arms of Pope Benedict XIV; in text 7 intaglio vignettes and 5 capilettera, water gouge at upper margin, light browning, more intense on a few papers, slight flourishes, small tear without loss to inner margin of plates, restored coeval leather binding, slight defects.