Zocchi Giuseppi (2 results)

Condition: Good. Giuseppe Zocchi hand-colored engraving; titled to back "Never Lose Hope", marked to top front "imprimé par l'Editrice P.V.", marked to bottom left "G. Zocchi inven.", marked to bottom right "F. Bartolozzi incid. appo Wagner Ven. C.P.E.S P.V", and marked to bottom middle "Quindi ristoro all'agghiacciate genti Sono le fiamme, e delle lane il panno"; measures approximately 19 3/4" x 13 1/2"; r. Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767) was an Italian painter and printmaker, active in Florence. assumed later printing. "glued to backing card, some marks and spots and edge wear".

Large folio (53.5 x 37 cm.). Contemporary red morocco, gilt covers with roll-tool gilt border, spine with raised bands and gilt decorated compartments yellow edges, marbled endpapers. Double-page engraved allegorical title-page incorporating dedication by Johann Gottfried Seutter after Giuseppe Magini, double-page engraved plan of Florence by Ferdinande Ruggieri (dated 1755, same publisher), 24 double-page engraved plates by J.A. Pfeffel, J.S. Muller, G. Vasi and others after Zocchi. Corners worn, head of spine chaffed, short tear to upper blank margin of title-page, 2 small dampstains just touching image of opening 5 plates, short thin hole at centre-fold of plates 5 and 6, 9 cm vertical tear (repaired) reaching from lower margin to image of plate 14 (Chiesa St. Trinita), light toning at centre fold of some plates, withal still a very good, handsome copy. Second edition, first published 1744. Plate XV misnumbered XIV as usual. Magnificent views of eighteenth century Florence by Giuseppe Zocchi (c.17111767), the so-called "Canaletto of Florence". A complete set of the finest pictorial record of the historical architecture of Florence in the XVIII century. 'Consistently celebrative and accomplished, this shows a city striving to maintain a placid and prosperous appearance; Zocchi's limpid vision, similar to Carlevaris' and Visentini's interpretations of Venice, endow the city with cohesion and serenity' (Millard). (Berlin Kat. 2700; Brunet V, 1107).