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CIAMPINI, Giovanni (1633-1698). Vetera Monumenta. Rome: Johan Jacob Komarek (vol.I) or Typographia Bernabo (vol.II), 1690-1699. 2 volumes, 2° (323 x 215mm). Engraved folding frontispieces (inner and outer margins cut down and repaired), 133 plates (33 double-page, 21 folding), one illustration. 2 folding or double-page letterpress tables. (One plate shaved with loss, a few others close-shaved.) Cicognara 3671.
[With:]
De Sacris Aedificis a Constantino Magno constructis. Rome: Johan Jacob Komarek, 1693. 2° (323 x 215mm). Engraved folding frontispiece (inner and outer margins cut down and repaired), 35 plates (5 double-page, 2 folding). Cicognara 3672.
The 2 works uniformly bound in near-contemporary calf, spines gilt (but rubbed, joints split).
The first work is without the portrait. Ciampini was a man of letters and antiquary who abandoned the law to study the antique. He established a number of academies in Rome to encourage the study of literature, and his home was known as a meeting place for literary figures. (3)
[With:]
De Sacris Aedificis a Constantino Magno constructis. Rome: Johan Jacob Komarek, 1693. 2° (323 x 215mm). Engraved folding frontispiece (inner and outer margins cut down and repaired), 35 plates (5 double-page, 2 folding). Cicognara 3672.
The 2 works uniformly bound in near-contemporary calf, spines gilt (but rubbed, joints split).
The first work is without the portrait. Ciampini was a man of letters and antiquary who abandoned the law to study the antique. He established a number of academies in Rome to encourage the study of literature, and his home was known as a meeting place for literary figures. (3)