ALBERTINI, Francesco. Opusculum de mirabilibus novae et veteris urbis Romae. Rome: Jacobus Mazochius, 1515. With final blank. Title with woodcut architectural border. (Title holed, library stamp removed from title, first four leaves silked, occasional light spotting.)

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ALBERTINI, Francesco. Opusculum de mirabilibus novae et veteris urbis Romae. Rome: Jacobus Mazochius, 1515. With final blank. Title with woodcut architectural border. (Title holed, library stamp removed from title, first four leaves silked, occasional light spotting.)

Second edition of a work written at the instigation of Cardinal Galeotto della Rovere, and first printed by Mazochius in 1510. It is divided into two parts, the first dealing with ancient Rome, and also surveying contemporary excavations and recent archaeological discoveries; the second part, on modern Rome, gives a detailed account of buildings commissioned by Julius II. The final section on Florence and Savona includes a well-known reference to Amerigo Vespucci and his discoveries in the New World, as well as to many notable Florentine artists and scientists.

Bound with: Antonius MANCINELLUS (1452-ca. 1506). Sacri Palatii et Romani Gymnasii Festi Dies. With another text by Mancinellus, Statio Totius Anni in Urbe; and a calendar, Festa Palatii Apostolici. [Rome: perhaps after 1500].

Collation: A4. Silber type 3:114[112]R2, 3-line initials G and S. 30 lines. (Slightly stained.)

Apparently the FIRST EDITION of Mancinellus's verse; Festa Palatii Apostolici was first published by Ulrich Han ca. 1470 (GW 9857). Reichling gave this edition also to Han, IGI to Mazochius after 1500. The GW files create for this edition a "Printer of Mancinellus" and date it "after 1500?" (kindly communicated to us by Dr. Holger Nickel). However, the type appears to be a state of Silber 3, and either Silber or a shop that acquired his material (very plausibly Mazochius, the printer of the first work in this Sammelband) may have been responsible for printing this EXCEEDINGLY RARE EDITION. The only copy recorded in institutional ownership is that of the Biblioteca Corsiniana, Rome. Reichling 1517; IGI IV, p.27.

2 works in one volume, C4° (210 x 140mm.). Contemporary Italian brown blindstamped morocco (rebacked, some minor worming, corners slightly rubbed). Provenance: Keith Andrews (booklabel).