Italy.- Bartoli (Pietro Santi) Colonna Traiana eretta dal Senato

Italy.- Bartoli (Pietro Santi) Colonna Traiana eretta dal Senato, e Popolo Romano, engraved title, engraved dedication to Louis XIV, publisher's letterpress dedication, 7 engraved diagrams of Trajan's Column unnumbered as issued, including the 3-part view of the column in its entirety, not joined, 119 numbered engraved plates of the frieze, with 16 pp. letterpress text description of Alfonso Chacon and index, small hole to title with neat old repair, plate 32 with marginal tear and expert repair, occasional faint marginal spotting and staining (not affecting images), strengthened hinges, contemporary russia, rebacked, bumping to corners and spine extremities, oblong folio, Rome, Giacomo de Rossi, n.d. [but probably eighteenth century]. *** An impressive edition of Bartoli's engraved masterpiece, based on his own drawings of Trajan's column. Bartoli was able to inspect the column up-close in the 1660s when King Louis XIV of France commissioned the erection of scaffolding in order to make a cast of the whole frieze. The publication was an immediate success, and copies were produced throughout the 18th and early 19th century.

Estimate:£1,000

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