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BOSIO, Antonio. Roma sotterranea . . . Nella quale si tratta de' sacri cimiterii di Roma. Rome: Guglielmo Facciotti for Carlo Aldobrandino, 1632.
Large 2° (510 x 386mm). Half-title, engraved title, letterpress title in red and black, 6 engraved plans, one double-page, 194 engraved illustrations in the text, many half-page, woodcut diagrams and initials. (Dampstain to upper margin, sometimes affecting text, occasional light spotting or browning.) 17th-century Italian goatskin, elaborately panelled in gilt with central lozenge made up of small scroll tools, surrounded by floral and foliate roll-tool borders with volute cornerpieces, spine in nine compartments with raised bands, overpainted in three with manuscript lettering, the others with with floral devices and borders made up of small tools, g.e. (spine worn at head and foot, slightly soiled and scuffed). Provenance: Conventus Gradientis (?Venice, 18th-century inscription on title).
FIRST EDITION of this attractive work on the sepulchres of ancient Rome, published posthumously. Bosio was "considéré comme le fondateur de l'Archéologie chrétienne" and through him "la Roma sotterranea se présenta au public avec l'autorité de l'érudition la plus consomée et de la probité la plus scrupuleuse" (Olschki 16509). Schudt p. 103.
Large 2° (510 x 386mm). Half-title, engraved title, letterpress title in red and black, 6 engraved plans, one double-page, 194 engraved illustrations in the text, many half-page, woodcut diagrams and initials. (Dampstain to upper margin, sometimes affecting text, occasional light spotting or browning.) 17th-century Italian goatskin, elaborately panelled in gilt with central lozenge made up of small scroll tools, surrounded by floral and foliate roll-tool borders with volute cornerpieces, spine in nine compartments with raised bands, overpainted in three with manuscript lettering, the others with with floral devices and borders made up of small tools, g.e. (spine worn at head and foot, slightly soiled and scuffed). Provenance: Conventus Gradientis (?Venice, 18th-century inscription on title).
FIRST EDITION of this attractive work on the sepulchres of ancient Rome, published posthumously. Bosio was "considéré comme le fondateur de l'Archéologie chrétienne" and through him "la Roma sotterranea se présenta au public avec l'autorité de l'érudition la plus consomée et de la probité la plus scrupuleuse" (Olschki 16509). Schudt p. 103.