Description
Gamucci (Bernardo) Le Antichita della Citta di Roma, edited by Thomaso Porcacchi, collation: †8 A-Z, Aa8Bb10, second edition, italic type, printer's woodcut device on title and otherwise final blank leaf, woodcut initials, folding map and 38 full-page illustrations, contemporary ink inscription at foot of title, occasional browning, map bound in upside down and with two tears (repaired), hinges split, old engraved book-label on front pastedown, 17th century vellum, yapp edges, red morocco label, a little rubbed and marked, [Adams G204], 8vo, 150 x 100mm., Venice, Giovanni Varisco, 1569.
⁂ Renaissance guide to Rome with charming woodcut views of the antiquities.
Lot 99
Italy.- Gamucci (Bernardo) Le Antichita della Citta di Roma, second edition, 17th century vellum, 8vo, Rome, Giovanni Varisco, 1569.
Hammer Price: £1,300
Description
Gamucci (Bernardo) Le Antichita della Citta di Roma, edited by Thomaso Porcacchi, collation: †8 A-Z, Aa8Bb10, second edition, italic type, printer's woodcut device on title and otherwise final blank leaf, woodcut initials, folding map and 38 full-page illustrations, contemporary ink inscription at foot of title, occasional browning, map bound in upside down and with two tears (repaired), hinges split, old engraved book-label on front pastedown, 17th century vellum, yapp edges, red morocco label, a little rubbed and marked, [Adams G204], 8vo, 150 x 100mm., Venice, Giovanni Varisco, 1569.
⁂ Renaissance guide to Rome with charming woodcut views of the antiquities.