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ROME - COVENS, Jean and Corneille MORTIER. Recentis Romae Ichnographia sive planta et facies ad magnificentiam. Amsterdam: J.Covens and C.Mortier, [ca. 1720].
Engraved plan of Rome of two sheets, joined, overall 660 x 860mm. (Small clean tears to upper fold and to blank left margin.)
A fine example of this Dutch reissue of Giovanni Battista Falda's map first published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1667. The Covens and Mortier issue is a direct restrike of the map with the erasure of the earlier names. Frutaz CLVIb. .
Engraved plan of Rome of two sheets, joined, overall 660 x 860mm. (Small clean tears to upper fold and to blank left margin.)
A fine example of this Dutch reissue of Giovanni Battista Falda's map first published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi in 1667. The Covens and Mortier issue is a direct restrike of the map with the erasure of the earlier names. Frutaz CLVIb. .