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BARTOLI, Pietro Santi (ca.1635-1700). Gli antichi sepolcri, overo mausolei Romani, et Etruschi. Rome: Antonio de Rossi, 1697. 2° (324 x 220mm). Front blank (A8). 114 engraved plates (numbered [1*], 1-4, 4A, 5-72, 72A, 72B, 73-110), three double-page. (Small section of title excised and repaired (as usual?), double-page plate numbered 85 slightly shaved into image at left margin.)
P.S.BARTOLI. Le Antiche lucerne sepolcrali figurate raccolte dalle Cave sotterranee, e grotte di Roma. Rome: Giovanni Francesco Buagni, 1691. 3 parts in one volume, 2° (325 x 218mm). Engraved title to each part and 116 plates. (Half-title, title and two following leaves with margins extended to size, wormtrack through plates 28-36 in part one, some other light marginal worming.)
The two works uniformly bound in 18th-century mottled calf gilt, spines in seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in one, the others with repeat elephant crest and surrounding small tools (lettering-piece to the second work lacking, to the first defective). Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine (binding). (2)
P.S.BARTOLI. Le Antiche lucerne sepolcrali figurate raccolte dalle Cave sotterranee, e grotte di Roma. Rome: Giovanni Francesco Buagni, 1691. 3 parts in one volume, 2° (325 x 218mm). Engraved title to each part and 116 plates. (Half-title, title and two following leaves with margins extended to size, wormtrack through plates 28-36 in part one, some other light marginal worming.)
The two works uniformly bound in 18th-century mottled calf gilt, spines in seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in one, the others with repeat elephant crest and surrounding small tools (lettering-piece to the second work lacking, to the first defective). Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine (binding). (2)