Roma vetus ac recens, utriusque aedificiis ad eruditam cognitionem expositis /
auctore Alexandro Donato e Societate Jesu.

Description

Main Author

Donati, Alessandro, 1584-1640.

Related Names

Alamannus, Ant.
Lelli, Giovanni Antonio, ca. 1580-1640.
Honervogt, Jacques, active 1654-1656.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Romae : Ex bibliotheca fratrum de Rubeis ..., anno jubilęi 1725.

Edition

Tertio edita, ac multis in locis ne dum aucta & castigatior reddita; verum etiam figuris aeneis veterum aedificiorum integritatem, & eorundem reliqua vestigia fideliter exprimentibus, illustrata.

Subjects

Rome (Italy > Rome (Italy / Buildings, structures, etc. > Rome (Italy / Buildings, structures, etc. / Early works to 1800.
Rome (Italy) > Rome (Italy) / Antiquities > Rome (Italy) / Antiquities / Early works to 1800.
Rome (Italy) > Rome (Italy) / Description and travel > Rome (Italy) / Description and travel / Early works to 1800.
Woodcuts > Woodcuts / Italy > Woodcuts / Italy / 17th century.
Etchings > Etchings / Italy > Etchings / Italy / 17th century.
Engravings > Engravings / Italy > Engravings / Italy / 17th century.

Note

Includes index.
Signatures: pi⁶ A-2K⁸ 2L⁸(-2L5,6) a⁸. Cancelled leaves 2L5,6 (retained in Getty copy of 1665 issue) bore text on Innocent X's building program.
Ill. on P2r and P3r repeated on Y4r and Y5r.
Frontispiece from 1st ed. of 1638, there engraved by J.F. Greuter after Giovanni Antonio Lilli, has been copied by Jacques Honervogt. Folded view of Capitoline facing p. 113 signed by Ant. Alamanus as draughtsman. Etched and engraved views of Roman buildings mostly full page. In-text ill. are mostly woodcuts of coins & medals. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.
First 2 & last 2 p. blank.
3rd ed. first published 1662. See Schudt.

Physical Description

[12], 537, [19] p., [4] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 26 cm. (4to)

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