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MARTINELLI, Agostino. Descrittione di diversi ponti esistenti sopra li fiumi Nera, e Tevere con vn discorso particolare della nauigatione da Perugia a Roma. Rome: Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, 1676.
Small 4°. Engraved arms of Innocent XI, the dedicatee, and 21 plates, all but one folding, all but one engraved (the other a woodcut), with the final blank. (Without the portrait, repaired tears in the fore-margin of A4, headline on the recto of the second leaf just shaved, rather browned and stained.) Contemporary vellum, gilt spine, gilt border and dentelle round sides (slightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of an important book illustrating the bridges over the Nera and the Tiber at the end of the 17th-century and revealing much of contemporary bridge-building skills. Of particular interest is the plate showing the Marmore Falls near Terni. Vinciana 1667; Riccardi II, 122 & 123.
Small 4°. Engraved arms of Innocent XI, the dedicatee, and 21 plates, all but one folding, all but one engraved (the other a woodcut), with the final blank. (Without the portrait, repaired tears in the fore-margin of A4, headline on the recto of the second leaf just shaved, rather browned and stained.) Contemporary vellum, gilt spine, gilt border and dentelle round sides (slightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of an important book illustrating the bridges over the Nera and the Tiber at the end of the 17th-century and revealing much of contemporary bridge-building skills. Of particular interest is the plate showing the Marmore Falls near Terni. Vinciana 1667; Riccardi II, 122 & 123.