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GAMUCCI, Bernardo. Libri quattro dell'antichita della città di Roma, raccolte sotto brevità da diversi antichi et moderni scrittori. Venice: Gio. Varisco, 1565.
4°. Printer's device to title and verso of final leaf, one folding woodcut plan, 38 woodcut illustrations, historiated initials. (Several laminated repairs to title, a few stains to verso of final leaf, lightly spotted.) Recent vellum. Provenance: Gio. Fran. Mariani (inscription to title), a few old annotations.
FIRST AND RAREST EDITION of this guide to Rome, which enjoyed enormous popularity in the second half of the 16th century. BL STC Italian, p. 290; Olschki Choix 16995; Schudt 711.
4°. Printer's device to title and verso of final leaf, one folding woodcut plan, 38 woodcut illustrations, historiated initials. (Several laminated repairs to title, a few stains to verso of final leaf, lightly spotted.) Recent vellum. Provenance: Gio. Fran. Mariani (inscription to title), a few old annotations.
FIRST AND RAREST EDITION of this guide to Rome, which enjoyed enormous popularity in the second half of the 16th century. BL STC Italian, p. 290; Olschki Choix 16995; Schudt 711.