Lot N. 122
Bernardo Gamucci
Le antichità della città di Roma ...
In Vinegia: appresso Giovanni Varisco, & compagni, 1569
... raccolte sotto brevuità da diuersi antichi e moderni scrittori, per m. Bernardo Gamucci da San Gimignano: et con nuouo ordine fedelmente descritte, & rappresentate con bellissime figure, nel modo che a' tempi nostri si ritrouano, In questa seconda editione da infiniti errori emendate & corrette da Thomaso Porcacchi In-8° (155x105 mm) [8], 202 c., [1] c. of table folded. Shelfmark: †8A-2A8 2B10. Beautiful initials, illustrations and woodcut finials. At the end of the printer's brand. Full parchment binding, with calligraphic title on the spine, with evident mending and stains, loose hinge with detachment to the internal bites, in particular of the first file. Title page with gora and hole on publisher's brand, gora on f. 56, spot of blue ink on cc. 130-136, lacks, without loss of text, in the upper corner of cc. 135-155, 162-168, 192-202 (gnawing that also affects the rear plate). Otherwise clean and without foxing Second rare edition, with corrections by Porcacchi, of this famous guide to Rome
... raccolte sotto brevuità da diuersi antichi e moderni scrittori, per m. Bernardo Gamucci da San Gimignano: et con nuouo ordine fedelmente descritte, & rappresentate con bellissime figure, nel modo che a' tempi nostri si ritrouano, In questa seconda editione da infiniti errori emendate & corrette da Thomaso Porcacchi In-8° (155x105 mm) [8], 202 c., [1] c. of table folded. Shelfmark: †8A-2A8 2B10. Beautiful initials, illustrations and woodcut finials. At the end of the printer's brand. Full parchment binding, with calligraphic title on the spine, with evident mending and stains, loose hinge with detachment to the internal bites, in particular of the first file. Title page with gora and hole on publisher's brand, gora on f. 56, spot of blue ink on cc. 130-136, lacks, without loss of text, in the upper corner of cc. 135-155, 162-168, 192-202 (gnawing that also affects the rear plate). Otherwise clean and without foxing Second rare edition, with corrections by Porcacchi, of this famous guide to Rome
Ex libris "G. De' Espinay" on the front flyleaf; handwritten notes to the back
Edit16 CNCE 20383