Contignationes ac pontes Nicolai Zabaglia :
una cum quibusdam ingeniosis praxis : ac descriptione translationis Obelisci Vaticani aliorumque per equitem Dominicum Fontana susceptae = Castelli, e ponti di Maestro Niccola Zabaglia : con alcune ingegnose practiche : e con la descrizione del trasporto dell'obelisco Vaticano e di altri del cavaliere Domenico Fontana.
Description
- Related Names
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Sangermano, Giacomo.
Vasi, Giuseppe, 1710-1782.
Rostagni, Francesco.
Specchi, Alessandro, 1668-1729.
Fontana, Carlo, 1634-1714.
Fontana, Domenico, 1543-1607.
- Language(s)
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Italian ; Latin
- Published
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Romae : Ex typographia Palladis, excudebant Nicolaus et Marcus Palearini ..., MDCCXLIII [1743]
- Note
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Illustrations: 55 engravings, comprising Zabaglia's portrait by Girolamo Rossi after Pietro Leone Ghezzi and 54 numbered plates (4 double) by Alessandro Francesco Rostagni, Giuseppe Agostino, Giuseppe Vasi, Martino Schede, Niccola Guttierez, Francesco Duflos, Francesco Mazzoni, Angelo Guiducci, Michele Sorello, Paolo Pilaja, and others illustrating Zabaglia's text and by A. Specchi after Carlo Fontana and Rostagni's reworking of the original delineations of the positioning of the obelisk by Domenico Fontana. These latter engravings bear numbering from earlier publications as well.
Text is printed on double sheets Latin on one side, Italian on the other, printed on one side of the double sheet only.
Imprint also in Italian. Preface and text in Latin and Italian.
- Physical Description
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[8] pages, [LIV], [1] leaves of plates, 21 folded leaves :
illustrations (engravings) ;
47 cm (fol.)
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