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Title

Le Antichita

Della Citta

Di Roma

Raccolte Sotto Brevita

da diversi antichi & moderni Scrittori,

per M. Bernardo Gamucci

da San Gimignano:

Et Con Nuovo Ordine Fedelmente deseritte & rappresentante con

bellissime figure, nel modo che a' tempi nostri si ritrouano,

In Questa Seconda

editione da infiniti errori emendare &

correte da Thomaso Porcacchi.

Con Privilegio

[Second Edition – Full Leather Binding]

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Author

M. Bernardo Gamucci

Thomaso Porcacchi.

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Year of Publication

1569

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Publisher

In Vinegia: appresso Giovanni Varisco & i compagni

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For full description see below - after all photographs

 

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Description:

In Vinegia: appresso Giovanni Varisco & i compagni, 1569, Second Edition.

Full leather binding with gilt titles to a red leather label to the spine, pages with ink marginalia throughout.

Four volumes bound as one, amended and corrected 1569 (dated foreword by editor Thomaso Porcacchi).

Title page with publisher's engraved crest, 38 woodcut plates / engraved illustrations after Giovanni Antonio Dosio (architect and sculptor 1533-1609, b. San Gimignano) and a fold out map of Rome. The fold out map with closed tears (no loss) to the folds, creased to the join with the text block.

Four books in one: Libro Primo pp.1-58, Libro Secondo pp.59-97, Libro Terzo pp.98-176, Libro Quarto pp.177-201.

Four page Introduction by Thomaso Porcacchi (1530-1576), highly regarded 16th century author and cartographer – although Porcacchi made many amendments and corrections to Gamucci's second edition, he is very polite in his praise of Gamucci's "intelligence, effort and industry".

Six page address by Bernardo Gamucci in praise of Don Francesco de Medici, Prince of Florence and Siena; two page note to the readers by publisher Giovanni Varisco, and poetry quotes at the beginning from contemporary 16th century writers including M. Benedetto Varchi, Madonna Laura Battiferra and M. Gherardo Spini.

An attractive and well-preserved copy.

Pagination: [xvi], 202pp. numbered to the facing page only.

Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates.

Approximately 6 ¼ inches tall (16cm).

 

Condition Report

Externally

• Spine – very good condition – gilt titles to red leather label, four raised bands, blind stamped decoration, year in gilt at the base.
• Joints – very good condition.
• Corners – very good condition.
• Boards – very good condition – minor marks and wear, blind stamped border.
• Page edges – good condition – top edge darkened, others tanned.
• See above and photos.

Internally

• Hinges – very good condition – sound.
• Paste downs – good condition – recent.
• End papers – good condition – recent.
• Title – good condition – tanned and foxed.
• Pages – good condition – tanned and foxed, marks and stains, ink marginalia throughout, map with closed tears to the folds, tightly bound so as to make the gutter text a little more difficult to read, worming to the margin of pages 33 to 41.
• Binding – very good condition – attractive.
• See photos.

Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1569
Binding: Hardback

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