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FASTOS MAGISTRATUM ET TRIUMPHORUM ROMANORUM AB URBE CONDITA AD AUGUSTI OBITUM EX ANTIQUIS TAM NUMISMATUM QUAM MARMORUM MONUMENTIS RESTITUTOS.

by GOLTZIUS, Hubertus

Brugis Flandrorum (Bruges); 1571

Original overlapping limp vellum with manuscript title on the spine

Traces of ties.

Folio: 9 by 12"

Fully illustrated including allegorical title page showing the figure of Rome dominating the enslaved peoples around it; 234 wood and copper-engravings of numismatic and epigraphic subjects.

Few pages with damstains.

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this work on the history of ancient Rome, from its origins until the death of Emperor Augustus.

It contains 72 wood-cut and 162 copper-engravings (234 total) chronologically depicting the history of Rome through its coins, medals and inscriptions.

Hubert Goltzius (or Goltz) was a Renaissance painter, engraver, and printer from the Southern Netherlands. Goltzius studied under Lambert Lombard (ca. 1505-1566) and spent 12 years in Antwerp working on a book of engravings of antiquities called Medaglien oft tronien der Roomsche Keysers (i.e., Medallions or busts of Roman emperors). He operated his own printshop in Bruges, where he published Caius Julius Caesar, or a History of Roman Emperors in Medals (1563) and The Life of Julius Caesar (1566).
In 1566 he also issued the present work, Fastos, for which he was made an honorary Roman citizen by the Rome council.
He published his final book in 1576 on the emperors of Greece as depicted in medallions.

REFERENCES:

Adams G-833; BB III-247/248; Funck 323; Hubertus Goltzius en Brugge [exhibition catalog] (Brugge, 1983), p. 50 and no. 40; USTC 401258.

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