Main entry:

Zabaglia, Nicola, 1664-1750.

Title & Author:

Castelli : e ponti di maestro Niccola Zabaglia con alcune ingegnose pratiche, e con la descrizione del trasporto dell' obelisco vaticano, e di altri del cavaliere Domenico Fontana.

Publication:

Roma : Nella stamperìa di Niccolò, e Marco Pagliarini mercanti librari, e stampatori, 1743 [i.e. 1773?]

Description:

4 pages, 55 plates : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 49 cm

Notes:
Ill.: 55 large engravings, comprising author's portrait by Girolamo Rossi after Pietro Leone Ghezzi and 54 numbered plates (4 double) by Alessandro Specchi, Francesco Rostagni, Giuseppe Agostino and others after Carlo Fontana, Rostagni and others. The plates depict scaffolding, hoists, etc. in use. Pl. 35-52 show obelisks being moved and erected. Six additional plates (4 fold., 2 double) showing scaffolding for construction work done in St. Peter's in 1773, bound in at end.
Brunet, V, 1515. Grässe, VI(2), 501. Cicognara: Catalogo, 968
Added t.p. in Latin; pref. and descriptive letter-press in Latin and Italian.

Subject:

Hoisting and conveying machinery Italy.
Scaffolding.
Obelisks, Egyptian Italy Rome.
Engravings, Italian.
Bindings, 18th cent., Italian.
Échafaudages.
scaffolds.
Italy.
Italy Rome.

Added entries:

Fontana, Domenico, 1543-1607.
Fontana, Carlo, 1634-1714.
Specchi, Alessandro, 1668-1729.
Rostagni, Francesco.
Vasi, Giuseppe, 1710-1782.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 128589
Call No.: W233
Status: Available