PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALFRED HOPKINS
MARLIANI, Bartolomeo. Urbis Romae topographia. Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
Details
MARLIANI, Bartolomeo. Urbis Romae topographia. Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
2o (327 x 230 mm). 23 woodcut illustrations, including a double-page woodcut map of Rome [Frutaz XII] on guard, lettered by Giovanni Battista Palatino, large woodcut printer's device on colophon leaf, italic type (some staining, small patched hole to margin of F5, H2). Contemporary Italian morocco gilt sides, blind and gilt interlacing fillets, gilt lettered (rebound, with sides laid down, spine vanished).
Third edition, first issue with no device on title, the FIRST ILLUSTRATED edition. It contains a large plan of ancient Rome which was the first to be scientifically designed in ichnographic and orographic terms (Frutaz); it is lettered by G.B. Palatino, a celebrated writing master. Other illustrations include a statue of Hercules attributed to Pheidias, and an early depiction of the Laocoon group. When the Laocoon was discovered in 1506 the right arm of Laocoon was missing; it was replaced in terracotta by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli in the 1530s (removed about 1797), and it is with this early replacement that the group is here pictured. Adams M-610; Berlin Kat. 1831; Mortimer, Italian 284; Schudt 605.
2
Third edition, first issue with no device on title, the FIRST ILLUSTRATED edition. It contains a large plan of ancient Rome which was the first to be scientifically designed in ichnographic and orographic terms (Frutaz); it is lettered by G.B. Palatino, a celebrated writing master. Other illustrations include a statue of Hercules attributed to Pheidias, and an early depiction of the Laocoon group. When the Laocoon was discovered in 1506 the right arm of Laocoon was missing; it was replaced in terracotta by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli in the 1530s (removed about 1797), and it is with this early replacement that the group is here pictured. Adams M-610; Berlin Kat. 1831; Mortimer, Italian 284; Schudt 605.