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ROME - FALDA, Giovanni Battista. Nuova Piante et alzata della citta di Roma con tutte le strade piazze et edificii de tempii palazzi giardini et altre fabbriche antiche e moderne. Rome: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, 1705.
Engraved wall-map of Rome on 12 sheets, each sheet 395 x 515mm. Detailed plan of the city showing all the principal buildings, streets, gardens and houses, inset general map of the region around Rome showing rivers, mountains and major roads, three inset indices, two with decorative cartouches, listing a total of 483 entries, lower cartouche enclosing nine small vignette views of Rome, decorative dedication to Pope Innocent XI, explanatory note from the publisher enclosed within a decorative cartouche of shields, title along upper border, the whole map enclosed within an elaborate floral border, loose as issued with wide margins and deckle edges. (Centrefold of one sheet slightly browned and repaired, occasional light soiling to margins.
The first reissue of Falda and Rossi's important wallmap of 1676; the size and grandeur of Falda's project mirrored the great plans of Rome issued in the 17th century, the elaborately engraved sheets making this map one of the finest cartographic works of Rome of the period. Frutaz CLVIII. (12)
Engraved wall-map of Rome on 12 sheets, each sheet 395 x 515mm. Detailed plan of the city showing all the principal buildings, streets, gardens and houses, inset general map of the region around Rome showing rivers, mountains and major roads, three inset indices, two with decorative cartouches, listing a total of 483 entries, lower cartouche enclosing nine small vignette views of Rome, decorative dedication to Pope Innocent XI, explanatory note from the publisher enclosed within a decorative cartouche of shields, title along upper border, the whole map enclosed within an elaborate floral border, loose as issued with wide margins and deckle edges. (Centrefold of one sheet slightly browned and repaired, occasional light soiling to margins.
The first reissue of Falda and Rossi's important wallmap of 1676; the size and grandeur of Falda's project mirrored the great plans of Rome issued in the 17th century, the elaborately engraved sheets making this map one of the finest cartographic works of Rome of the period. Frutaz CLVIII. (12)