[BARRIÈRE, Dominique (c.1622-1678) and Giovanni Battista FALDA (c. 1640-1678).] Villa Pamphilia eiusque palatium, cum suis prospectibus, statue, fontes, vivaria, theatre, areolae, plantarum, viarumque ordines, cum eiusdem villae absoluta delineatione. Rome: G.G. de' Rossi [c.1675-1677]. 84 hand-coloured engraved plates, comprising: frontispiece portrait of Camillo Panfilio by L. Visscher after Gio. Batista Gaulus Genouen, view of the entrance gate to 'Villa Pamphilia' by and after Dominique Barrière, double-page and folding plan and 5 views of the villa and its gardens, double-page and folding view of the 'Fons Veneris' and 3 single-page views of the fountains by and after Giovanni Battista Falda with undated imprint of G.G. de' Rossi, 50 single-page plates of statues and 22 single-page plates of busts at the villa. Title with hand-coloured etched device of the Pamphili arms. The portrait, plate of the entrance gate, plan and outer borders of folding plates, letterpress to title and first four lines of dedication heightened in gold. (Occasional scattered minor spotting, some light creasing to folding plates.) [Bound with:] CESIO, Carlo (1626-1686). Galeria Dipinta Nel Palazzo Del Prencipe Panfilio Da Pietro Berrettini Da Cortona. Rome: G.G. De' Rossi, [c. 1690]. 14 double-page, of which 10 folding, hand-coloured engraved plates and 2 single-page engraved plates [numbers 6 and 11, usually found in most copies printed on a single sheet], all heightened in gold. 2 works in one volume, 2° (444 x 312mm). Near-contemporary vellum panelled in gilt and centred with an astrolabe ornament, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, gilt edges (green silk ties missing, covers slightly bowed). Provenance: early ink numbering to some plates in the first work mostly trimmed away by the binder -- Emily, Marchioness of Lansdowne (1819-1895; engraved armorial bookplate). EXTREMELY RARE WORK WITH MAGNIFICENT HAND-COLOURED PLATES, HEIGHTENED IN GOLD. The Villa Pamphili was the last and most magnificent of the Roman villas built in the 16th- and 17th- centuries: the construction of the villa, under the architect G.F. Grimaldi and the sculptor Algardi,lasted from 1644 to 1648, and the gardens were laid out in 1650. The house included some of the finest stucco work of the 17th century, and a main feature of the gardens was the collection of Roman and Greek statuary, displayed in niches in the facade of the villa and in the grounds. Shortly after this collection was installed, Pamphili commissioned Barrière -- one of the pre-eminent architectural draughtsmen in Rome in the 1640 and 1650s -- to draw and engrave views of the Villa and a number of the statues; this commission was probably executed by Barrière (together with Carlo Orlandi, thought to be an assistant or student) between 1652 and 1657, when payments to them are recorded. After Camillo Pamphili's death in 1666, the plates were inherited by his son Giambattista, who presumably arranged the publication of Villa Pamphilia by de' Rossi. Further plates were engraved for the work, and 4 plates from G.B. Falda's Le fontane di Roma were also included. NO COLOURED COPY OF EITHER WORK CAN BE TRACED AT AUCTION (ABPC-online / AE). First work: Berlin Kat 3491 (82 plates); Brunet V, 1233 (87 plates); Cicognara 3911 (87 plates); RIBA VI, 3482 (83 plates); second work: Berlin Kat 4095; Brunet I, 811-812; RIBA I, 592.