Lot No: 28. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778) - Frontispiece of the Vedute di Roma (Hind 2)
Etching, c1748, First Paris Edition, on laid, with the usual central vertical crease; water staining lower margin, other damp staining top margin, 505 x 640mm (19 3/4 x 25 1/8in)(PL)(unframed) - Estimate: £600 - 800 

Lot No: 29. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778) - The Arch of Janus, with the Arch of the money-changers (Hind 96)
Etching, 1771, first state of four, on thick laid with thread margins; stuck down at sheet corners, two 1 cm nicks into the image, top sheet edge, 473 x 700mm (18 2/3 x 27 1/2)(SH)(unframed) - Estimate: £300 - 500

Lot No: 30. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778) - The Porta Maggiore originally an archway of the Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus (Hind 119)
Etching, 1775, first state of three, on laid; faint foxing, unexamined out of the frame, 490 x 700mm (19 1/4 x 27 2/3in)(PL) - Estimate: £350 - 450

Lot No: 31. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778) - The drawbridge (Robison 33)
Etching, from 'Carceri', First Paris edition, on laid, with a partially indistinguishable watermark 83 (c1800-1830); a central horizontal repaired tear, time stained, other minor defects, 555 x 410mm (21 3/4 x 16 1/8in)(PL)(unframed) - Estimate: £1,200 - 1,600

Bonhams. Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints, 12 Nov 2007. New Bond Street - www.bonhams.com