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Fulvio, Andrea (ca. 1470-1543); Ferrucci, Girolamo (fl. 1588)

L' Antichità di Roma di Andrea Fulvio antiquiario romano, di nuouo con ogni diligenza corretta & ampliata, con gli adornamenti di disegni de gli edificij antichi & moderni; con le aggiuntioni & annotationi di Girolamo Ferrucci Romano

Venice: Girolamo Francini, 1588.

Price: $4,800.00

A very good copy, bound in attractive 18th c. mottled calfskin (wear to extremities, small scrapes), the spine richly tooled in gold, with the author and title tooled onto a citron morocco label. Internally very good, the title trimmed closely at the head, a few small stains, intermittent damp-staining (a...

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MUSEUMS. Bianchi, Giuseppe (b. ca. 1727)

Ragguaglio delle Antichità e Rarità che si conservano nella Galleria Mediceo-Imperiale di Firenze. Parte I [all published] Opera Di Giuseppe Bianchi Custode Della Medesima…

Florence: Nella stamperia Imperiale, 1759.

Price: $6,500.00

A crisp, bright copy in original three-quarter calf and speckled paper over boards, spine with floral ornaments (light wear). The text is adorned with attractive woodcut initials and headpieces.First edition of the first guide to one of the world’s most important museums. This guide to the Medici collections of the...

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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)

Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzo

[N.P, N.D.]: ca. 1774.

Price: $12,500.00

Image size (from plate mark): 121.2 x 71.1 cm. This copy is in excellent condition with no staining or discoloration where the three sheets are joined.Piranesi’s map extends the area covered by the Nolli plan as far north as the Ponte Milvio. Piranesi has made the important innovation of identifying...

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ROME. MIRABILIA. Solinus, Gaius Julius (3rd c.)

Polyhistor, sive De mirabilibus mundi, sive Collectanea rerum memorabilium. Add: Mirabilia Romae

Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 23 August, 1491.

Price: $18,000.00

Bound in early vellum with later endpapers. A fine, fresh copy with nice margins, printed on high-quality paper. First leaf slightly soiled and with mild wear to the edges, a few trivial light stains, verso of final leaf lightly soiled, faded early inscription to title.The “Mirabilia Romae” (Marvels of Rome)...

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ROME. Roisecco, Gregorio (18th c.)

Roma Antica, e Moderna: o sia Nuova descrizione di tutti gl' edifizj antichi, e moderni tanto sagri, quanto profani della città di Roma: formata con l’autorità del Cardinale Baronio, Ciacconio, Bosio, Panciroli, Marliani, Panvinio… Abbellita con duecento, e più figure di rame e con curiose notizie istoriche. Distinta in 14 rioni secondo l’ultimo dipartimento fattone per comandamento di N.S.Benedetto XIV.. felicemente regnante. Divisa in tre tomi.

Rome: Gregorio Roisecco mercante di libri in Piazza Navona nella stamperia Puccinelli, 1750.

Price: $6,500.00

I. [2], xvi, 654 pp. Collation: π2, a8, A-Z8, Aa-Ss8 (lacking Ss8 blank and with an added leaf *Ii after leaf Ii1. π1 is the engraved t.p.) With 19 folding plates, of which two are folding maps of (ancient and modern) Rome. 68 engravings in the text. Vol. II. [2]...

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Rome. Roisecco, Niccola (18th c.)

Roma antica, e moderna: o sia Nuova descrizione di tutti gl' edifizj antichi, e moderni sagri, e profani della città di Roma: co' nomi degl' autori di tutte le opere di architettura, scultura, e pittura ... : Una relazione della presente corte di Roma de' suoi ministri, cogregazioni, e tribunali, e la cronologia de' re, consoli, imperadori e pontefici Romani: con duecento e piu figure in rame. Il tutto cavato dal Baronio, Bosio, Nardini, Grevio, ed altri classici autori. Tomo primo[-terzo].

Rome:, A spese di Niccola Roisecco, 1765.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in three uniform bindings of contemporary patterned paste-paper over cartoncino boards. wear to extremities and spines. Internally this is as close to an immaculate set as I have seen, with some deckled edges preserved. The text is bright and clean throughout. The folding engravings are crisp.The three volumes are...

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VATICAN MUSEUMS [Clement XIV, Pope (reg. 1769-1774); Pius VI, Pope (reg. 1775-1799)] Massi, Pasquale, da Cesena

Indicazione Antiquaria del Pontificio Museo Pio-Clementino in Vaticano, stesa da Pasquale Mass Cesenate Custode del Museo Stesso/ Catalogue Indicatif des Antiquitès Composant Le Musèe Pie-Clèmentin au Vatican par Paschal Massi de Cesèns Garde du dit Musèe.

Rome: Presso Lazzarini, 1792.

Price: $8,400.00

Printed on blue paper. In contemporary mottled calf, the spine and boards tooled in gold. A very fine copy of the very rare first catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino - founded by Pope Clement XIV in 1771 and greatly expanded his successor by Pius VI-, written for the use of...

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