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Legatio David Aethiopiae Regis, ad Sanctissimum D. N. Clementem Papam VII. una cum obedientia,...

Legatio David Aethiopiae Regis, ad Sanctissimum D. N. Clementem Papam VII. una cum obedientia, eidem sanctissimi D. N. praestita. Eiusdem David Aethiopiae regis legatio, ad Emanuelem Portugalliae regem. Item alia legatio eiusdem David Aethiopiae regis, ad Ioannem Portugalliae regem. De regno Aethiopiae, ac populo, deque moribus eiusdem populi, nonnulla.

Bologna: apud Iacobum Remolen Alostensem, 1533.

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Bound in 19th c. polished treed calf, boards framed with gold-tooled meander pattern. Mild staining in the inner margin of the first leaf, the rest of the text is in very fine condition. Printed in 1533 in Bologna by Jakob Remolen (a native of Aalst, Belgium) the work was translated...

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Les Plus Beaux Monuments De Rome Ancienne. Ou Recueíl Des Plus Beaux Morceaux de L'Antiquité...

Les Plus Beaux Monuments De Rome Ancienne. Ou Recueíl Des Plus Beaux Morceaux de L'Antiquité Romaine Qui Existent Encore: Dessinés Par Monsieur Barbault Peintre Ancien Pensionnaire Du Roy a Rome, Et Gravés, en 128 Planches Avec Leur Explication.

Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires François rüe du Cours près de Saint Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1761.

Price: $16,000.00

Magnificently illustrated with 73 etched and engraved plates comprising 88 half-page and 29 full-page images of ancient Roman architecture and sculpture. These were designed by Barbault (83 engravings), Carlo Nolli (1), and L. Bufalino (1) and engraved by Barbault (56), Domenico Montagù (52), Giuseppe? Bouchard (6), and Freicenet (4). The...

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Les Plus Beaux Édifices De Rome Moderne, Ou Recueíl Des Plus Belles Vües Des Principales...

Les Plus Beaux Édifices De Rome Moderne, Ou Recueíl Des Plus Belles Vües Des Principales Églises, Places, Palais, Fontaines &c. Qui Sont Dans Rome Dessinées Par Jean Barbault Peintre, Ancien Pensionnaire Du Roy a Rome, Et Gravées en XLIV. Grandes Planches et Plusieurs Vignettes; Par D’Habiles Maitres. Avec La Description Historique De Chaque Edifice.

Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires françois rüe du Cours près l’Eglise de S. Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1763.

Price: $22,000.00

This is a very fine, broad-margined copy bound in 19th c. half vellum (worn, small splits at head and foot of spine and another along the spine. The text and plates are in excellent condition with only a few instances of light marginal foxing or the occasional light blemish. One...

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Vedute d'architettura antica in prospettiva di Domenico Bianconi alla Reale Academia di Francia...

Vedute d'architettura antica in prospettiva di Domenico Bianconi alla Reale Academia di Francia in Roma.

Rome: the author, ca. 1760.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in contemporary stiff parchment over boards, with patterned paste-paper for the pastedowns. The binding and contents are beautifully preserved and very fresh. Provenance: From the private collection of Thomas Vroom (bookplate), deaccessioned 2019.A remarkable, unpublished manuscript treatise by Domenico Bianconi, an architect and scenographer who worked in the style...

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Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae primus et secundus liber. Ludouico Madrucio S.R.E. Card...

Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae primus et secundus liber. Ludouico Madrucio S.R.E. Card amplissimo dic. Baptista de Caualleriis authore

[Rome:]: no printer, no date, ca. 1574-, 1584.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment, title label with gilt lettering. A fine, wide-margined copy with beautiful, rich impressions of the plates. Title lightly soiled and with upper blank margin restored (not affecting the plate.) A few spots in the blank, inner margin of the first plate, far from the...

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L' Antichità di Roma di Andrea Fulvio antiquiario romano, di nuouo con ogni diligenza corretta &...

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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Vrbis Romae topographia B. Marliani ad Franciscvm Regem Gallorvm eivsdem vrbis liberatorem...

Vrbis Romae topographia B. Marliani ad Franciscvm Regem Gallorvm eivsdem vrbis liberatorem invictvm. Adiecta priori eiusdem auctoris topographiae editioni in hoc opere sunt. Vrbis, atque insignium in ea aedificiorum descriptiones, compluràque alia memoratu digna. Errores nonnulli sublati. Tituli, inscriptionèsque non aliter, quàm ipsis inerant marmoribus, emendatissime expressi, qui ab aliis hactenus neglecto ordine, & perperam in lucem editi inveniuntur. Cum Priuilegio Pauli . III . Pont. Max. cuius exemplum in fine libri impressum est

Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544.

Price: $15,000.00

This is an exceptionally large copy, with none of the usual trimming to the oversized woodcuts that illustrate the volume. It is one of the two largest copies that I have handled. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, laced through with the original rawhide sewing supports intact. The binding is entirely...

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Vrbis Romae topographia B. Marliani ad Franciscvm Regem Gallorvm eivsdem vrbis liberatorem...

Vrbis Romae topographia B. Marliani ad Franciscvm Regem Gallorvm eivsdem vrbis liberatorem invictvm. Adiecta priori eiusdem auctoris topographiae editioni in hoc opere sunt. Vrbis, atque insignium in ea aedificiorum descriptiones, compluràque alia memoratu digna. Errores nonnulli sublati. Tituli, inscriptionèsque non aliter, quàm ipsis inerant marmoribus, emendatissime expressi, qui ab aliis hactenus neglecto ordine, & perperam in lucem editi inveniuntur. Cum Priuilegio Pauli . III . Pont. Max. cuius exemplum in fine libri impressum est.

Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544.

Price: $18,000.00

Complete with the folding engraved map of Rome by Palatino (Frutaz 12). The often-lacking colophon leaf with the full-paged Pegasus printer’s device (Ascarelli fig. 24) is also present. This copy has features that will be of interest to the bibliographer. It has all of the points of the first issue...

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Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumenta. Ex postrema Iacobi Micylli...

Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumenta. Ex postrema Iacobi Micylli recognitione.

Frankfurt: Joh. Feyerabend for S. Feyerabend, H. Takke and P. Fischer, 1587.

Price: $6,500.00

Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin, ruled and tooled in blind, with sheaves of wheat and medallion portrait heads (soiled, minor defect to pigskin of lower board, lacking clasps. Internally a nice copy with the very faintest of toning, some 17th c. line numbering, a very few, insignificant stains, and a....

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Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzo. Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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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"Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae": A bespoke album of 43 plates, compiled and bound ca. 1675....

"Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae": A bespoke album of 43 plates, compiled and bound ca. 1675

Rome: Various publishers: Nicolaes van Aelst; Hendrick van Schoel; Giovanni Orlandi; Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, ca. 1587-, 1675.

Price: $50,000.00

Bound in contemporary limp vellum (lightly soiled, a few light stains, two small defects to spine, wear to corners), with remains of rawhide ties. The contents are in excellent, overall fresh condition, with very minor faults as follows: (a few light marginal damp-stains, a half-inch tear in the blank portion...

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CASTELLO S. ANGELO CON LA GIRANDOLA. Ambrogio ROME. FESTIVALS. Brambilla, artist, Hendrick Van...

CASTELLO S. ANGELO CON LA GIRANDOLA

Rome: Hendrick van Schoel, printed between 1614 and, 1622.

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Single sheet etching by Ambrogio Brambilla (active 1579-99), after his own drawing. Signed and dated in the plate "Io. Ambr. Bram. Inv et fe. 1579". On laid paper with a watermark of an anchor in a circle with a star. The print was first published by Claudio Duchetti, whose name...

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

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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Roma Antica, e Moderna: o sia Nuova descrizione di tutti gl' edifizj antichi, e moderni tanto...

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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Roma antica, e moderna: o sia Nuova descrizione di tutti gl' edifizj antichi, e moderni sagri, e...

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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Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua Sac. Ces....

Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua Sac. Ces. Mae. Stampati in Praga da Aegidio Sadeler scultore di essa mae 1606.

Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1660.

Price: $18,000.00

With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide hung on a monument; an engraved dedication to Matthaeus Wacker von Wackenfels (numbered'1'), with the text incised on a stone tablet between flanking obelisks and with two putti supporting the dedicatee's arms; and 49 full-paged engraved...

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Warhafftige vnnd kurtze bericht Jnn der Summa, wie es ietzo, im tausent Funff hundert vn(d) Siben...

Warhafftige vnnd kurtze bericht Jnn der Summa, wie es ietzo, im tausent Funff hundert vn(d) Siben vnd zwayntzigsten Jar Den vj.tag May, durch römischer Kayserlicher, vnd hi- spanischer Küniglicher Mayestet kriegs volck, Jn eroberunng der Stat rom ergangen ist ...

[Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner], 1527.

Price: $7,500.00

Modern marbled boards. Printed on heavy paper. Title lightly foxed and with some light stains. A little finger-soiling to text, else fine with wide margins. Single pinprick wormhole in blank lower margin. With three woodcuts: A battle scene on the title page, soldiers advancing (by Hans Weiditz) on verso, and...

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