Osservazioni di Gio. Battista Piranesi sopra la lettre de M. Mariette aux auteurs de la Gazette littéraire de l'Europe
Subtitle: inserita nel supplemento, dell'istessa Gazzetta stampata dimanche 4. novembre, MDCCLIV [i.e. 1764]. E parere su l'architettura, con una prefazione ad un nuovo trattato Della introduzione e del progresso delle belle arti in Europa ne' tempi antichi
Contributors: Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1694-1774; Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Library
Publisher: [Generoso Salomoni]
Published: 1765
Place of publication: In Roma [Rome]
Language: ita
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Architecture; Early works to 1800; Etruscan influences; Classical Art; Classicism in art
Other titles: Essais de differentes frises ou peintures qui se trouvent dans les soûterrains des anciens Etrusques; Parere su l'architettura.; Della introduzione e del progresso delle belle arti in Europa ne' tempi antichi.
Work titles: Osservazioni sopra la lettre de M. Mariette
Notes: Title and imprint taken from title-plate.

Mariette's letter is printed in French in parallel with Piranesi's 'Osservazioni' on p. 1-8.

Imprint of Generoso Salomoni appears at the foot of p. 23.

All of the plates are printed on double leaves.

"The work was intended to be bound with copies of Delle magnificenza, as a supplement, and many copies survive in this form."--Royal Inst. of Brit. Architects catalog, no. 2563; also see no. 2552.

Avery Classics (AE659 SACKLER v.9) copy: Watermarks: Hind's type 3.

Avery Classics (AE659 SACKLER v.9) copy: Bound with: Della magnificenza ed architettura de' Romani.

Piranesi drawings and etchings at the Avery Architectural Library, Columbia University, New York : the Arther M. Sackler Collection, no. 43

Avery Classics (AE659 SACKLER v.9) copy: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Sackler, 1970.

Gift; Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Sackler; 1970.