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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo. Urbis Romae topographia. Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
2°. 23 woodcut illustrations, including a folding woodcut map of Rome [Frutaz XII] on guard, lettered by Giovanni Battista Palatino, and three woodcuts with the margins folded to avoid the binder's knife, large woodcut printer's device on colophon leaf, italic type. (The map shaved at the upper margin, just touching the image, and repaired at right margin with slight loss, illustration on K6v shaved as usual, a few other illustrations just shaved.) Old vellum over pasteboard, gilt arms of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell at centre of upper cover, morocco lettering-piece on spine (small tear to upper joint, light soiling.) Provenance: Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878, binding and armorial bookplate); Archibald Stirling of Keir (bookplate).
Third edition, first issue with no device on title, the FIRST ILLUSTRATED edition. It contains a large plan of ancient Rome which was the first to be scientifically designed in ichnographic and orographic terms (Frutaz); it is lettered by G.B. Palatino, a celebrated writing master. Other illustrations include a statue of Hercules attributed to Pheidias, and an early depiction of the Laocoon group. When the Laocoon was discovered in 1506 the right arm of Laocoon was missing; it was replaced in terracotta by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli in the 1530s (removed about 1797), and it is with this early replacement that the group is here pictured. Adams M-610; Berlin Kat. 1831; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 284; Schudt 605.
2°. 23 woodcut illustrations, including a folding woodcut map of Rome [Frutaz XII] on guard, lettered by Giovanni Battista Palatino, and three woodcuts with the margins folded to avoid the binder's knife, large woodcut printer's device on colophon leaf, italic type. (The map shaved at the upper margin, just touching the image, and repaired at right margin with slight loss, illustration on K6v shaved as usual, a few other illustrations just shaved.) Old vellum over pasteboard, gilt arms of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell at centre of upper cover, morocco lettering-piece on spine (small tear to upper joint, light soiling.) Provenance: Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878, binding and armorial bookplate); Archibald Stirling of Keir (bookplate).
Third edition, first issue with no device on title, the FIRST ILLUSTRATED edition. It contains a large plan of ancient Rome which was the first to be scientifically designed in ichnographic and orographic terms (Frutaz); it is lettered by G.B. Palatino, a celebrated writing master. Other illustrations include a statue of Hercules attributed to Pheidias, and an early depiction of the Laocoon group. When the Laocoon was discovered in 1506 the right arm of Laocoon was missing; it was replaced in terracotta by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli in the 1530s (removed about 1797), and it is with this early replacement that the group is here pictured. Adams M-610; Berlin Kat. 1831; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 284; Schudt 605.