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OVERBEEKE, Bonaventura van (1660-1706). Reliquiae antiquae urbis Romae. Edited by Michael Overbeeke. The Hague: Peter Gosse and Daniel Pinet, 1763.
2° (545 x 415mm.). Titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece, dedication, portrait of the author, double-page plan and 146 plates (several double-page), illustrations. Contemporary roan-backed boards, uncut (scuffed).
A FINE COPY of the reissue of the sheets of the 1708 Amsterdam, Johann Crell edition, retaining its title-page followed by one newly printed by Gosse and Pinet. The original edition was published thanks to Overbeeke's nephew who arranged for the engraving of his uncle's collection of drawings and for the translation from the Dutch of his descriptive notes into French and Latin.
2° (545 x 415mm.). Titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece, dedication, portrait of the author, double-page plan and 146 plates (several double-page), illustrations. Contemporary roan-backed boards, uncut (scuffed).
A FINE COPY of the reissue of the sheets of the 1708 Amsterdam, Johann Crell edition, retaining its title-page followed by one newly printed by Gosse and Pinet. The original edition was published thanks to Overbeeke's nephew who arranged for the engraving of his uncle's collection of drawings and for the translation from the Dutch of his descriptive notes into French and Latin.