Title page in red and black; vignette

Running title: Ricerche sopra un Apollo

The figure described represents a restoration by Paolo Cavaceppi

Includes bibliographical references

The 4 works and their constituent parts were later published together with the series title: Dissertazione [I-VII] del p. Stefano Raffei ... da servire di supplemento all'opera dei Monumenti antichi inediti di Giovanni Winckelmann, Roma, C. Mordacchini, 1821

With the exception of the plates showing the actual subject of each work, the ill. in Raffei's works are taken from Winckelmann's Monumenti

Library's copies 1 and 2 with the author's: Saggio di osservazioni sopra un bassorilievo della villa dell'eminentissimo signor cardinale Alessandro Albani, 1773 -- Copy 1 also with his: Il nido, canzone didascalica sopra un antico nido di marmo esistente nella villa ..., 1778 -- Osservazioni sopra alcuni antichi monumenti esistenti nella villa ..., 1779. Copy 2 39 cm

v, [1], 18 pages, [3] leaves of plates : 47 cm

One of several essays by the author intended to supplement Johann Joachim Winckelmann's "Monumenti antichi inediti" (1767). The supplements were later collected in 1 volume and published with an edition of the "Monumenti" (C. Mordacchini, Rome, 1821)

With the exception of the plates showing the actual subject of each work, the illustrations in Raffei's works are taken from Winckelmann's Monumenti

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