⁂ Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***

Agostini (Antonio, Archbishop of Tarragona) Dialoghi...intorno alle medaglie inscrittioni et altre antichita, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut initials and illustrations of coins, browned in parts, contemporary ink signature of Martin Bowes with his engraved bookplate, contemporary limp vellum, [Cicognara 2726], Rome, Filippo de' Rossi, 1650 § Bartoli (Pietro Santi) Gli antichi sepolcri, ovvero mausolei Romani, ed Etruschi, engraved title vignette and 108 plates numbered 1-110 (with additional plates 1 & 4, and 2 additional numbered 72, but lacking 9, 10 & 60-63), engraved bookplate of William Wynne of Inner Temple and his ink note of acquisition to front pastedown, modern book-label of the art historians Peter & Linda Murray, contemporary vellum, Rome, Domenico de’ Rossi, 1727, a little rubbed & soiled, folio (2)

⁂ Bartoli’s work, first published in 1697, records the sculptured tombs, painted ceilings and mosaic pavements discovered in recent excavations in the grounds of the Villa Corsini in Rome, and of other notable tombs and mausoleums in and around Rome, including the tomb of Caecilia Metella, the pyramid of Caius Cestius, and the mausoleum of Hadrian (the Castel Sant'Angelo).