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FALDA, Giovanni Battista. Li Giardini di Roma. Rome: Giovanni Giacomo Rossi, [circa 1675]. Engraved throughout, title, dedication by A. van Westerhout after G.B. Manelli, 19 plates (13 by Falda, 5 by Simone Felice, 1 unsigned).
Bound with: Pietro FERRERIO and Giovanni Battista FALDA. Palazzi di Roma. Rome: G.G. Rossi, [circa 1680]. 2 volumes. Engraved throughout. Titles (the first creased), 100 plates (one folding and on two sheets) by Ferrerio (41) and Falda (59).
2 works in 1 volume, oblong 2° (348 x 464mm.). Contemporary German speckled calf, spine gilt (scuffed, chipped and rubbed). Provenance: Bibliotheca Abbatiae Vallis-Dei (German stamp and bookplate, Abbot of ?Gottesthal).
A fine compilation including FALDA'S RAREST WORK, and the first edition of the expanded work on the Palazzi of Rome, with the plates in their first state before the addition of numbers. The first work includes the gardens of the Vatican, the Villa Medici and, most importantly, three great villas that have since been destroyed: Villa Ludovisi, Villa Peretti and Rainaldi's villa design for the Farnese on the Palatine. First work: Berlin Kat. 3492. Second work: cf. Fowler 120.
Bound with: Pietro FERRERIO and Giovanni Battista FALDA. Palazzi di Roma. Rome: G.G. Rossi, [circa 1680]. 2 volumes. Engraved throughout. Titles (the first creased), 100 plates (one folding and on two sheets) by Ferrerio (41) and Falda (59).
2 works in 1 volume, oblong 2° (348 x 464mm.). Contemporary German speckled calf, spine gilt (scuffed, chipped and rubbed). Provenance: Bibliotheca Abbatiae Vallis-Dei (German stamp and bookplate, Abbot of ?Gottesthal).
A fine compilation including FALDA'S RAREST WORK, and the first edition of the expanded work on the Palazzi of Rome, with the plates in their first state before the addition of numbers. The first work includes the gardens of the Vatican, the Villa Medici and, most importantly, three great villas that have since been destroyed: Villa Ludovisi, Villa Peretti and Rainaldi's villa design for the Farnese on the Palatine. First work: Berlin Kat. 3492. Second work: cf. Fowler 120.