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CAVALLIERI, Giovanni Battista. Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae. [Rome:] 1585-[94]. In 4 parts. 2 etched titles, 196 etched plates only (of 200), and one additional plate. (First title lightly soiled and with erased inscription, occasional light soiling, mainly to margins.) Adams C1179 (pts. I and II only); Cicognara 3492; Olschki Choix 16668 (pts. I and II only). [Bound with:]
DOSIO, Giovanni Antonio. Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustrium quae supersunt reliquiae. [Florence:] 1569. Etched title and 49 plates. (One plate with small paper flaw affecting image, a few margins slightly cropped.) Berlin Kat. 1846; Brunet I, 1697; Cicognara 3492 & 3704; Fowler 107; Olschki Choix 16844: "Ce recueil de vues est un des plus importants parus au XVIe siècle ... est parmi les plus difficiles à trouver".
2 works in one volume, 4° (258 x 195mm.). 18th-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label (head and tail of spine repaired).
Second edition of the first work, FIRST EDITION of the second. Dosio's work is an important authority on the state of the classical ruins in Rome in the late 16th century, being free from the imaginative reconstruction so beloved by other contemporary archaeologists.
DOSIO, Giovanni Antonio. Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustrium quae supersunt reliquiae. [Florence:] 1569. Etched title and 49 plates. (One plate with small paper flaw affecting image, a few margins slightly cropped.) Berlin Kat. 1846; Brunet I, 1697; Cicognara 3492 & 3704; Fowler 107; Olschki Choix 16844: "Ce recueil de vues est un des plus importants parus au XVIe siècle ... est parmi les plus difficiles à trouver".
2 works in one volume, 4° (258 x 195mm.). 18th-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label (head and tail of spine repaired).
Second edition of the first work, FIRST EDITION of the second. Dosio's work is an important authority on the state of the classical ruins in Rome in the late 16th century, being free from the imaginative reconstruction so beloved by other contemporary archaeologists.