Entrée principale:

Lauro, Giacomo, active 17th century.

Titre et auteur:

Antiquae vrbis splendor : hoc est praecipua eiusdem templa, amphitheatra, theatra, circi, naumachiae, arcus triumphales, mausolea aliaque sumptuosiora aedificia, pompae, item, triumphalis et colossaearum, imaginum, descriptio : opera & industria Iacobi Lauri Romani in aes incisa atque in lucem edita : addita est breuis quaedam et succincta imaginum explicatio in qua regum consulum imperatorūq : res gestae et rei Romanae origo progressus incrementum, ac finis cū almae vrbis antiquor[um] ac modernor[um] vestigior[um] additione utcunq[ue], hoc insequenti anno 1630 reperiūtur, et ex veterū ac recentior[um] historiar[um] monumentis clare ostenditur.

Publication:

[Rome] : [Vitali Mascardi], [1637]

Description:

4 volumes in 1 ([2] pages, 166 [i.e. 171], [1] leaves of plates) : chiefly illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 23 x 33 cm

Notes:
Originally published in 3 pts. dated 1612, 1613 and 1615. A fourth pt. was added in 1628. These dates appear respectively on the general title plate in bk. 1 and the special title plates in books 2-4.
Imprint from address to the reader, in Italian, by Giovanni Alto (p. [1]).
Plate numbering includes all engraved title plates and dedications.
Plate [167] is a table listing all of 166 numbered plates and itself. Plates also include 5 unnumbered plates not listed in the table: i.e., port. of Urban VIII, interior view of the Roman Senate in session, façade of S. Maria di Loreto, the Laocöon, and the Farnese bull.
British Architectural Library. Early Imprints Collection. Early printed books, 1478-1840, c1994-c2003, 1780
The Mark J. Millard architectural collection, c1993-c2000, v. 4, 54
Library copy: binding: contemporary gilt vellum.
Library copy: 19th-century armorial bookplate of a colonel in the Irish Vesey family, possibly George Francis Vesey (b. 1839); later signature of Paul Heide (?) on front free endpaper.

Sujet:

Lauro, Giacomo, active 17th century.
Lauro, Giacomo, 17th cent.
Antiquities.
Rome In art.
Rome (Italy) Antiquities.
Rome (Italie) Antiquités.
Italy Rome.
Rome (Empire)
Architecture (object genre) Rome.
Italian Engravers (printmakers)

Classification/genre:

Vellum (parchment) bindings.
Art.

Vedettes secondaires:

Alto, Giovanni Ridolfo.
Provenance. Vesey, George Francis, b. 1839. Bookplate.
Bookplates. Vesey, George Francis, b. 1839.
Provenance. Heide, Paul. Autograph.
Autographs. Heide, Paul.

Antiquae urbis splendor
Antiqvae vrbis splendor

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Localisation: Bibliothèque main m 228817
Cote: NE89.L387.A35 1637
Statut: Disponible