totti pompilio (7 Ergebnisse)

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

12mo [13 x 8 x 7 cm]. Contemporary leather binding with a red title label. (34) 792 pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 81 other copper engravings (one of the folded) and smaller in-text woodcuts. Some of the engravings with small restorations. Binding slightly rubbed. The first edition of the Dutch translation of a guide to antique and modern Rome: "Ritratto di Roma moderna" (first published in 1638), as seen in a 6-day trip. With an overview of the most important buildings and monuments of both ancient and "modern" Rome, reconstruction drawings and contemporary views of the city. Pompilio Totti (c.1590-1639), born in Cerreto di Spoleto, worked in Rome from 1611-1612 with the bookseller Martinelli before opening his own bookshop in 1639. He was an Italian librarian, engraving and printseller. This is a very beautiful, early description of the architecture of Rome and its surroundings, with its most famous buildings and monuments: Pons Sublicius, Papal Palace on Monte Cavallo, Palazzo Barberini, Villa Aldobrandini (Frascati), the tomb of Caecilia Metella, the statue of Laocoön and His Sons, etc. // Wir, das Antiquariat Steffen Völkel, kaufen und verkaufen alte Bücher, Handschriften, Zeichnungen, Autographen, Grafiken und Fotografien. Wir sind stets am Ankauf von kompletten Bibliotheken, Sammlungen und Nachlässen interessiert. Sprache: Niederländisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. [LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ROME] FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. (xviii) 162 (vi). Roman letter, little Italic. Additional engraved t-p with female figure (city of Rome) flanked by the Pantheon, Colosseum, arms and Egyptian obelisks, arms of Ercole Trivulzio (?) below, woodcut Roman medal to t-p, 130 ¾-page plates with genealogy of Romulus, Roman buildings, coins and monuments, 144 woodcut medals of Roman Emperors, 2 full-page woodcut plates with male figures holding urn (rivers), decorated initials and ornaments. Outer edges a bit dusty and minimally trimmed, light water stain to upper outer corners and outer margins of last gathering, small hole to plate 82 (to remove the Sun), slight offsetting from plates, a few outer margins and verso of last somewhat finger soiled, slight marginal fraying to last three. A good copy in C17 vellum over boards, marbled eps, traces of yellow paint to covers, decorative double blind ruling, lozenge-shaped centrepiece and large fleurons to inner corners in blind, spine triple blind ruled in five compartments, modern bookplate to front pastedown. Lavishly illustrated first edition of this handsome, detailed, early guidebook on 'the principal temples, theatres, amphitheatres, circuses, sea battles, triumphal arches, curie, basilicas, columns, order of triumphs, military and civil dignities, rites, ceremonies, medals and other remarkable things' of ancient Rome. With it, its obscure author, the Umbrian Pompilio Totti (1590-c.1644), sought to create 'a portrait of ancient Rome both figured and animated', bringing to life the antiquarian narratives of the city's past through fresh images of its ruins, buildings, inscriptions, princes and inhabitants. The first few chapters, prefaced by an engraved genealogy, are devoted to Romulus, his founding and planning of the city; thence the narrative proceeds to the seven kings of Rome and their successors, interspersed with antiquarian digressions on Roman customs including weddings and military triumphs. The fine engravings, here in fresh impression, were based on the accounts of ancient historians, on contemporary works like Marliani's 'Antiquae Romae topographia' and on Totti's personal knowledge: e.g., an illustrated tripod was now 'in the house of Signor Cavaliero Gualdo, and looked just as when it was unearthed in the baths of Paolo Emilio'. Sacrificial rites are illustrated with plates portraying a ritual scene and the numerous instruments used. The 'colonna miliaria', which stood 'at the centre of Rome, mistress of the world', was the 'terminus' of all the roads coming from and heading towards all the provinces and countries and kingdoms of the Empire. In the engraving it is accompanied by the lists of distances separating individual cities like Antioch or Constantinople from Rome. In Totti's work, the topography of the past and the present blend, with extant monuments sharing the stage with buildings of which only scant references existed, such as the villa of Scipio the African. An engaging guidebook and a beautifully produced example of Renaissance antiquarianism. BM STC It. C17, p. 917; Schudt, Guide di Roma, 181. BAL (1645 and 1697 eds). Not in Fowler or Berlin Cat.

Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. - First Edition - In Contemporary Italian - Bound in contemporary vellum over paper covers w/ sewn cord binding - Vellum heavily rippled and toned w/ age-staining and crease marks - Corners heavily bumped and creased - Title written in pen to spine - Bottom third of spine torn away from front joint revealing binding underneath - Spine ends show moderate loss w/ some of the sewing lost - numerous annotation marks and underlined sections in very faded ink - Several of the later leaves in the text block are badly scribbled on w/ a more recent pen - Previous illegible owner signature w/ flourish in pen to inner cover - Edges of text block badly tanned, shelf worn and spotted w/ corners dog eared and creased - Guttering open in numerous places and content shows significant wear, tanning and age-staining - Some leaves end of text block badly crumpled - Some pen vandalism to pp464/5 and it appears as if an unsupervised child did some (fortunately limited) damage to this very rare, and scarce volume - item ow/ solid - 525 pages.

0. 13,7 x 8 cm. 4 Bll., 432 S. 4 Bll. Pergamentband d. Zt. auf 3 durchgezog. Bünden. Vorderdeckel mit Kratzspur. Sprache: Deutsch 1.100 gr. Pergamentband d. Zt. auf 3 durchgezog. Bünden.

Legatura antica in pergamena rigida dipinta (minime tracce d usura). Nervetti e titolo impresso a secco al ds. Tagli rossi. Antiporta controfondata con piccolo restauro al margine inferiore. Ex libris anticamente ms. al frontespizio. Due macchie gialle al verso del frontis., una sulla terza carta ed un altra a p. 366. Nel complesso, ottimo esemplare. Rossetti, G-766. 8vo (cm. 16), 4 cc.nn. (compresa antiporta calcografica), 560 pp., 12 cc.nn. Con 82 incisioni su rame e 27 medaglioni xilografici n.t.