![MAZZOCCHI, Jacopo (16th century). Epigrammata antiquae urbis. Rome: Jacobus Mazzocchius, April 1521. 4° (287 x 197mm). 21 woodcut illustrations, including one full-page woodcut of the Pantheon, some ancient Roman inscriptions set within woodcut borders, some full architectural borders, some designed as ornamental tablets, others composed of separate strips. (Occasional light spot or marginal dampstain, marginal paper flaw in one leaf.) 18th-century mottled calf, gilt spine, red sprinkled edges (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Cornelius Vaenius (17th-century title inscription, possibly a relation of Otto Vaenius [van Veen], author of numerous emblem books) -- John Rolle, Baron Rolle of Stevenstone (1750-1842; armorial bookplate).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_06237_0336_000(mazzocchi_jacopo_epigrammata_antiquae_urbis_rome_jacobus_mazzocchius_a082608).jpg?w=1)
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MAZZOCCHI, Jacopo (16th century). Epigrammata antiquae urbis. Rome: Jacobus Mazzocchius, April 1521. 4° (287 x 197mm). 21 woodcut illustrations, including one full-page woodcut of the Pantheon, some ancient Roman inscriptions set within woodcut borders, some full architectural borders, some designed as ornamental tablets, others composed of separate strips. (Occasional light spot or marginal dampstain, marginal paper flaw in one leaf.) 18th-century mottled calf, gilt spine, red sprinkled edges (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Cornelius Vaenius (17th-century title inscription, possibly a relation of Otto Vaenius [van Veen], author of numerous emblem books) -- John Rolle, Baron Rolle of Stevenstone (1750-1842; armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of Mazzochi's important work recording ancient Roman inscriptions. It was compiled over a number of years, possibly with the collaboration of Mario Maffei, Bishop of Aquino, Mariangelo Accursio and Andrea Fulvio; sources include inscriptions in the house of Angelo Colocci, Pomponius Laetus, Guiliano Dati and others, often named in the text. It 'remains the fundamental book on Roman and early Christian epigraphy' (Builders and Humanists: the Renaissance Popes as Patrons of the Arts, 1966, p.200). Cicognara 3789; Mortimer Harvard Italian 297; Olschki Choix 16878.
FIRST EDITION of Mazzochi's important work recording ancient Roman inscriptions. It was compiled over a number of years, possibly with the collaboration of Mario Maffei, Bishop of Aquino, Mariangelo Accursio and Andrea Fulvio; sources include inscriptions in the house of Angelo Colocci, Pomponius Laetus, Guiliano Dati and others, often named in the text. It 'remains the fundamental book on Roman and early Christian epigraphy' (Builders and Humanists: the Renaissance Popes as Patrons of the Arts, 1966, p.200). Cicognara 3789; Mortimer Harvard Italian 297; Olschki Choix 16878.
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