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CRULLI de Marcucci, Giacomo. Grandezze della Citta di Roma Antiche & Moderne. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1625. 8° (167 x 112mm). Engraved title, portrait of Jacob Schletzer and 57 half-page illustrations. (The final leaf laid down, small marginal tears to A2 and C1, small hole in F4.) 18th-century mottled calf (upper cover detached). Provenance: early manuscript shelf-mark at front. Issue with plates 42 and 44 transposed. This rare work includes views of 41 'antiche' and 16 'moderne' buildings, fountains and monuments. Schudt 406.
Antonio LAFRERI. Illustrium viror[um] ut extant in urbe expressi vultus. Rome: [Antonio Lafreri], 1569. 2° (310 x 233mm). Engraved title and 52 plates. (Small tears to title and plates 18 and 19, slightly soiled.) 18th-century sheep, (rebacked and cornered, ties lacking). Provenance: I.B. (gilt initials on covers). FIRST EDITION, without the four leaves of letterpress dedication and preface by Aquiles Estaço. Mortimer, Harvard Italian 173; Brunet 766. (2)
Antonio LAFRERI. Illustrium viror[um] ut extant in urbe expressi vultus. Rome: [Antonio Lafreri], 1569. 2° (310 x 233mm). Engraved title and 52 plates. (Small tears to title and plates 18 and 19, slightly soiled.) 18th-century sheep, (rebacked and cornered, ties lacking). Provenance: I.B. (gilt initials on covers). FIRST EDITION, without the four leaves of letterpress dedication and preface by Aquiles Estaço. Mortimer, Harvard Italian 173; Brunet 766. (2)