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[email protected] member: Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Front cover: no. 73 airbrush Photography by Nicole Neenan 516-313-7442 Design and typography by Jerry Kelly 1. AQUARONI, ANTONIO. PONTI-ANTICHI SUL TEVERE E SULL’ANIENE DISEGNATI ED INCISI DA ANTONIO AQUA- RONI IN ROMA. (ANTIQUE BRIDGES AT THE RIVERS TIBER AND ANIENE). Rome: Calcografia Camerale, 1836. Folio, modern tan linen spine and cor- ners, cord tie, and yellow patterned-paper covered boards. Front free end- paper creased. Frontispiece foxed. Plates with strong, dark impressions on heavy cream paper. Engraved pictorial title page with Calcografia Roma Regio stamp in mar- gin and thirteen engravings of the eight ancient bridges. Aquaroni (circa 1801-1874) was an illustrator and engraver hired for his excellent eye and documentary fidelity by the Vatican to enrich its collec- tion of Roman views. This work is not included in OCLC but is held by the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome and the Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen. $7000 EMPIRE STATE BUILDING 2. (BAILEY, VERNON HOWE) EMPIRE STATE: A PICTORIAL RECORD OF ITS CONSTRUCTION. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1931. Folio, white vellum paper spine and blue paper-covered boards with inset embossed design of the Empire State Building in white on the cover. Fine copy in a poor, broken box. Print- ed on handmade paper in a limited edition. 3 A beautiful pictorial and textual record of the construction of the New York City landmark, beginning with drawings of the demolition of the old Waldorf-Astoria building on the site and continuing through many phases of erecting the skyscraper.