Live auction - Lot 1098
[Rome]
Tratado nuevo de las cosas maravillosas de la alma ciudad de Roma, adornado de muchas figuras [...]. Traduzido en lengua espanola por el muy reverendo P.F. Alonso Muñoz [...].
FELINI, Pietro Martire
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Roma, for B. Zannette, by J.D. Fra[n]zini and heirs of H. Franzini, 1620
8vo: [16]-448 pp. (dampstains, sm. marg. wormholes).
Mod. half leather, marbled paper covers, spine on raised bands ruled with gilt fillets, red marbled edges.
Spanish translation of Felini's popular travel guide to Rome (1st ed. in Italian & Spanish: 1610), based on Palladio and Prospeo Parisio's treatises. Illustrated with 231 woodcuts in the text and 2 full-page woodcuts figuring the famous monuments and statues. Also with 2 woodcuts figuring the "Alma Roma" (one on title). Felini was the Prior of the convent of Santa Maria in Via in Rome. Title printed in black & red. Prov. Fr. Joao Caetano Carilho (ms. entries). - Ms. entries crossed out on title and at colophon.