Architecture - Grand Tour Era Florence - an archive relating...

Hammer

£280

Architecture - Grand Tour Era Florence - an archive relating to Professor Enrico Ristori of Florence (b. 1861), late 19th/early 20th c, comprising academy citations and papers, including Pisa, a manuscript citation inscribed and signed on King Victor Emmanuel III's behalf in a secretarial hand, a telegram from the Italian architect and art critic Camillo Boito, b/w photographs of a model bridge and its subsequent building, further manuscript and printed ephemera loose and tipped-in a straight-grained morocco folio, tabbed and sometimes docketed, the upper-cover lettered in gilt, each cover applied with bosses, foliate endpapers, contemporary brass-mounted mahogany rounded rectangular case, applied with named plaques, 49cm wide