Martayan Lan (New York)
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 28] Rare books : Fifteenth to Nineteenth centuries
New York, Martayan Lan, [2001]
(27 cm), 272 pp., [18] p. of colour plates, black & white text illustrations. 231 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 227) the group of copper matrices for Giuseppe Vasi’s Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna (1747-1761) from the Feltrinelli collection (Christie’s, London, 2 June 1998, lot 1846), with essay by Myra Nan Rosenfeld, “’Vasi e Piranesi dis. e inc.’: The relationship between the Martayan Lan copper plates and Giuseppe Vasi’s Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna” (pp.249-261). The matrices were acquired by the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, in 2002 (€297,043); cf. Anna Grelle Iusco, Giuseppe Vasi. Il Fondo di Matrici dell’Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. Osservazioni e Divagazioni, catalogue for an exhibition, Rome, Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, 27 November 2004-7 February 2005 (Rome 2004).