GUIDEBOOKS TO ROME FROM THE 16TH, 17TH, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES

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1. BIONDO DA FORLI, FLAVIO. Roma Ristaurata, et Italia illustrata di Biondo da Forli, tradotte in buona lingua volgare per Lucio Fauno. Venice, [Michele Tremezzino], 1548 $3000.00 First published in Italian in 1542; the present of 1548 is textually identical. It was translated from the Latin. Flavio Biondo’s Roma instaurata was written in 1446 and circulated extensively in manuscript. It describes the existing remains of Pagan and Christian Rome and notes the building activities of Biondo’s patron Eugene IV. TheItalia illustrata was written in 1453 and covers the topography and antiquities of ancient . This little guidebook takes on an added interest as it is known to have been read carefully by Palladio. Howard Burns states “In the mid-fifteenth century, Flavio Biondo (an antiquarian whom Palladio read closely) argued that the Benedictine monasteries were the heirs to ancient Roman houses...” (Palladio, [Lond: R. A., 2009], p. 156). Burns further states (on p. 322): “The brevity and popularity of [Palladio’s] L’antichita should not lead us to underestimate its value. More than a guide, it was actually a topographical survey of ancient Rome, based on antique sources and modern writers. Palladio’s written sources can be deduced from his own comments in the introduction: Roma Ristaurata by Biondo Flavio (probably Lucio Fauno’s translation of 1542 but also 1543 or 1548)...” Schudt 572. Rossetti G-318. Schlosser-Magnino, p. 220. Olschki, Choix de livres anciens, v 11, 16470 (ed. of 1543). Of this edition OCLC locates five copies in American libraries.

Sm. 8vo, orig. limp vellum, remains of ties, spine worn but intact. 16 ff + 242 (leaves numbered on rectos only) + 10 + 1 ff. Woodcut device on title and final leaf (‘Sibylla’); printed in italic throughout, woodcut initials. Pagination irregular between 131-135 but a good clean complete copy.

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2. [TOTTI, POMPHILO]. Ritratto di Roma Antica nel quale sono figurati i princiali tempij, teatri, anfiteatri...Second Impressione. Roma: Andrea Fei, 1633 $1500.00

Originally published 1627 also by Andrea Fei. The title continues “...anfeteatri, cerchi, naumachie, archi trionfali, curie, basiliche, colonne, ordini di trionfo, dignita militari, e civili, riti cerimonie, medaglie, & altrae cose notabili.” Includes 132 charming engravings of antique buildings and monuments but also includes a fine view of the ‘Campidoglio Moderne.’ The bibliography by Schudt of these Roman guide books, published in 1930 is good, but the more recent work by Sergio Rossetti, Rome, a bibliography from the invention or printing through 1899 - the Guide Books (2000) is an astonishing work; it is excellent. Schudt 182. Rossetti G-679.

Small 8vo, orig. full polished calf, red edges, gilt spine, dark red lettering piece. (xvi)+370+(3) pp of wood-engr. of coins; with engr t.p., 132 engr illus + 2 full-p. woodcut illus and about 60 wood engr illus of Roman coins. Front hinge partially cracked but holding. Some very old and faded water stains but a nice copy.

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3. FABRICIUS, GEORGIUS; TYSIUS, ANTONIUS; JUSTUS LIPSIUS. Roma Illustrata sive antiquitatum romanarum breviarium. Amsterdam: Ludovicus - Daniel Elzevir, 1657 $750.00

Justus Lipsius is normally assigned as author (for which see Schudt 731); in the present copy Lipsius is credited on the verso of the title page. Despite the title, this is not an illustrated book, at least not with illustrations of ancient monuments (it does contain two woodcut plates of arms and shields, as used by ancient Roman warriors). Olschki, Choix, 17968 cites an edition of 1650 with the note: “On trouve recueillis dans ce volume des ouvrages de Lipsius: De Magistratibus vet. pop. romani- De militaria romana - De gladiatoribus. L’ouvrage de Fabricius qui se trove a la fin est assez important.” Olschki’s next entry (17969) is the present work. Schudt 731. Rossetti G-780 (according to Rossetti’s excellent index this is the only Roman guide printed by Elzevir). OCLC locates four copies in America (Getty, Huntington, Yale, Dartmouth). Thomas Jefferson owned a copy published in 1692.

24mo, orig. full vellum, cover edges turned in; gilt stamped spine label. (vi)+524+(xvii) pp. of index. With engr frontisp (allegorical figure of Rome) and 2+1 wood-cut text illus. Slight old water stains in the last few leaves, else a fine copy. Early owner’s inscription on front fly dated 1667.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS COINS & MONUMENTS OF ANCIENT locates 12 copies in this country, but it is scarce in the market place. Schudt, Le guide di Roma, 742. ROME. A WIDELY POPULAR WORK FOR Part of the appeal of these early Rome guides are the TRAVELLERS, PILGRIMS & GRAND engravings and views of well-known and beloved monuments. TOURISTS Here, for examples one finds the Column of Trajan, Temple of Fortuna Virilis, Arch of Titus, arch of Constantine, Colosseum, the Pantheon, Baths of Diocletian, Vatican obelisk and many others. 4. DONATI, ALESSANDRO. Roma vetus ac recens utriusque aedificiis illustrata...editio ultima. Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergios & 4to, orig. full vellum. T.p. in red & black; (iv) pp dedication; (i) pp to the reader; Joannem Wolters, 1695 $2750.00 (iii) pp index; 356+(iv)+(xvi) pp. With engr frontisp, 2 fdg engr maps and 82 engr plates (of which 16 carry two images each) thus a total of 98 engravings. Plus a Very nice copy of this long popular work. It was first published in large number of engravings of coins. Extensive annotations on p. 292. Inscription Rome in 1638. It was then reprinted by Filippo di Rossi in 1648 with no on front fly: “F. Kern, litt. et Icl 1840.” Bookplate: “Ex-libris Si Quid Superest alterations apart from minor corrections. In 1662, however, Filippo Bolotte.” gave the book a new lease on life by reprinting Donati’s text with numerous engraved illustrations of coins and medals and many full-page engravings of the monuments of the ancient city. For nearly half of the latter he drew on plates originally published forty years earlier in Maggi’s Aedificiorum et ruinarum Romae, the two series of which had been issued by his father, Giuseppe de’Rossi Milanese, in 1618. For a book of this type, assured of a strong and continuous market, it is likely that de’ Rossi had printed a very large edition in 1662, possibly keeping back a portion for putting through the rolling press at a later date. Another edition was printed at Amsterdam in 1694 [and reissued in 1695 as here] under the title as above. In addition to the coins there are 67 full page engravings of the monuments of ancient Rome shown in most cases as they were supposed to have been and as they existed in modern times. [Most of this note is taken from BAL 906-907]. This edition is fairly widely held in libraries; OCLC

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5. PINAROLO, GIACOMO. L’Antichita di Roma, con le cose piu memorabili tanto antichi, che moderne. Aggiuntevi le spiegazioni de’bassi rilievi & iscrizione, che sono nelle Chiesi, Palazzi, e Giardini, e i diporti delle Ville fuori di essa Città...terza edizioni, con l’aggiunta d’altre notizie antiche, e moderne di G. B. V. Rome: per Gaetano Zenobij Stampatore, e intagliatore...a spese di Gaetano Caparanica, 1713 $2500.00 Originally published in 1700; this is the third and best edition. Schudt points out the valuable notes on the Baroque palaces of Rome. The plates are slightly naive but carefully engraved; as expected they illustrate the most famous sights of the city: Campidoglio, Campo Vaccino, Colonna Antonina, La Rotunda (Pantheon), Piazza Navona, St. Peter’s, Castel St. Angelo, etc. etc. There were four editions: 1700, 1703, 1713 and 1725 in three volumes. Schudt 304. Rossetti G-1075. Rare; OCLC locates one copy of this edition (Univ of Goettingen); no copies in the USA.

2 vols, 12mo, orig. full vellum, titles written on spine in ink. (xvi)+389 pp and (xii)+324 pp. with 24 and 18 engraved plates, mostly folding. Title pages of both volumes have small areas clipped away to remove an old owner’s name, (and mended). Spines of both vols have large black old library call numbers written on the lower two panels. Else a fine clean and crisp copy.

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6. [ROSSI, MICHEL’ANGELO & PIER VINCENZO (Eds)]. Descrizione di Roma Antica.... & Moderna. Roma: Michelangelo – Pier VincenzodeRossi,1719 $2000.00 Originally published in 1697; this second edition has been greatly enlarged. The title page of volume one (Antique) acknowledges the authority of Bartolomeo Marliani, Onofrio Panvinio, Alessandro Donati and Famiano Nardini. Volume two (Modern) acknowledges Card. Cesare Baronio, Antonio Bosio, and O�avio Pancrioli. The Rossis were a publishing dynasty in 17th century Rome, and the bibliography of these various guidebooks is complicated. The present work is one of the best, both for antique and ‘modern’ Rome. The great charm and appeal of these early guide books, especially for those who do not read Italian, are the etched or engraved illustrations. The present work includes the Palazzos Ma�ei, Farnesi, Spada, della Cancellaria, Piazza Navona, S. Agnese, Palazzo Panfilio, S. Maria della Pace, Santa Susanna, Pal. Barberino, Villa Borghese, Pal. Borghese, Sant Ignazio, Collegio Romano, Chiesadel Gesu, Campidoglio, S. Giovanni Laterano, Santa Marie Maggiore, Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati, among many others. As exactly with his collation. OCLC locates 6 copies in American noted, the bibliography of these guidebooks is complicated, but it libraries. has taken a giant step forward with the brilliant work by Sergio 2 vols, thick 8vo, orig. full vellum, each vol with the spines neatly le�ered in Rosse�i, Rome, a bibliography from the invention of printing through an 18th century calligraphic hand. I. xvi+1-478; 481-643 with etched frontisp & 1899; I. the Guide Books, Rome: Olschki, 2000. The present work is 8 fdg. engr plates (the first of which is the map) and 116 text illus & medals. II. Rosse�e G-1095. He states that the number of plates may vary from (vi)+792 pp with engr frontisp & 13 fdg. engr plates (the first of which is the copy to copy but the present copy corresponds almost map), and 68 illus & medals. Crack in the lower front hinge of vol I. Slight browning here and there but very good copies.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS 7. RAGUENET, FRANCOIS. [SAMBER, ROBERT]. Roma illustrata: or, a description of the most beautiful pieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture, antique and modern, at and near Rome. : W. Chetwood & S. Chapman, 1722 $1500.00 First edition in English. Dedicated to the Earl of Burlington (‘...nor shall I ever forget that Goodnefs and noble Affability with which your Lordship treated me at Chefwick.’) Includes descriptions of the Porta del Popolo, the Porta Pia, the ruins of Diocletian’s Baths, the Villa Adriana, Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne in the Villa Borghese, etc. As Paul Grinke has pointed out, the book is of great interest for its enthusiastic praise of Bernini, the Carracci, Guido Reni, Fontana and Carlo Maderna. It is an unacknowledged translation of Raguenet, Les monumens de Rome (Paris, 1700; Amsterdam, 1701). Schudt, Le guide di Roma, no. 523. Rossetti G1106. OCLC locates 7 copies in American libraries.

12mo, orig. full calf, dark red lettering piece. hinges slightly cracked; new front and rear flyleaves. (20)+195+1 pp with numerous wood-engraved tailpieces. A nice copy.

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8. [VACCONDIO, GIOVANNI BATISTA]. Cosas maravillosas de la santa cuidad de Roma...De nuevo corregidas, ampliadas, y adornadas con bellissimas figuras, con los postas de Roma à Madrid. Rome: Zenobiii, 1729 $2000.00

Fine copy of a very rare guidebook first published 1711, in Spanish for foreign visitors. OCLC locates just one copy of this edition (Getty) and one copy of the first edition, somewhere in Spain. This edition is particularly appealing due to the fine bold woodcuts and the double- page engraving of the Vatican signed by Pancrazio Capelli, Sculp. The title-page vignette is a woodcut of the river god Tiber. The frontispiece is an engraving of the goddess of Rome with the Vatican and Castel Saint Angelo in the background. All of the best loved monuments of Rome are illustrated - for example, St. John Laterano, the Baldachin in St. Peter’s, Santa Maria in Trateverie, Column of Trajan, Pantheon, Piazza Navona, S. Carlo Borromeo, Capitoline Hill, and so forth. Ink inscription on front flyleaf: R. D. Waddilove, 1777 - probably Robert Darley Waddilove (1736-1828), Dean of Rippon. Not in Rosseti. Schudt 170 (p. 231).

Small 8vo, orig. full vellum, spine with raised bands, very nice copy. (vi)+7-278 pp with engr frontisp., double-p. engr view of the Vatican and 72 fine wood-cut illus.

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9. [ROISECCO, NICOLA]. Roma ampliata e rinovata o sia nuova descrizione dell’antica e moderna città di Roma e di tutti gli edifizj notabili che sono in essa. Roma: Libreria di Niccola Roisecco, 1762 $1600.00

First published in 1725 with 53 illustrations; this later edition has 47 plus the folding frontispiece engraving of the aerial view of the Bernini colonnade of St. Peter’s. The views, which are mostly identified, include many famous and beloved monuments, e.g. Altar Maggiore (the baldacchino in St. Peter’s); Palazzo S. Spirito, S. Giovanni in Laternao, Tempio della Concordia, Piazza Navona, Campidoglio, Campo Vacchio, Tre Fontani, Termidi Caracalla, Palazzo Farnese, Tempi di Pace, Arci di Constantino, Il Coloseo, Col. Traiana, etc. The origins of this book and its bibliography are complicated; for a brief but good discussion see BAL. Early Printed Books, no. 2829. Rare; OCLC locates just one copy: Courtauld Inst., and no copies in American libraries. The Courtuld copy is from the library of Professor , who was director from 1947 to 1974. Rossetti, G-1226. Schudt 1174.

Small 8vo, orig. full vellum. (6)+215+1 pp with engr. frontispiece (as noted above the Piazza S. Pietro) and 47 woodcut illustrations. A good copy.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS FINE COPY OF A RARE GUIDEBOOK engraved blocks are reused or copied from previous centuries; they may indeed be those of Girolamo Francini of the 1590s (and this may be why OCLC gives the TO ROME book to Francini). Most of the illustrations are of modern (as opposed to ancient) Rome. The impressions in this copy are rich and black and sharp. Rossetti G1200. Schudt 158. Olschki, v XI, no. 17216 noting it is a reprint of the same text of 1725, 10. [PALLADIO,ANDREA]&[GIROLAMOFRANZINI].Les marveilles the latter published by Bernabo. For a good clear explanation of the guides to de la ville de Rome ou est traité des Eglises, Stations & Reliques des Corps Saints...Beaoucoup Rome by Palladio see G. Beltramini & H. Burns, Palladio (2009), pp. 322-323. A fine corrigé & amplife: avec un addition de la restauration des eglises. Rome: Chez Ansillion, crisp and clean copy in the original binding. It is rare to find early guidebooks in 1750 $2000.00 this essentially untouched condition. Fine copy of a rare mid-18th century guidebook to Rome enhanced by the addition of Palladio’s “Les Antiquites de la ville de Rome”, first published in 1554. OCLC lists 8vo, orig. speckled paper sides, calf spine gilt with 2 labels, red edges. 202 pp with wood-engr frontisp (allegorical figure of Rome) and 48 wood-engravings, mostly half-page. Pagination lacks 193/4 but the the author of theMarveilles as Girolamo Francini and also states that it contains “Les work is complete as indicted by catchwords, context and signature collation (and corresponds exactly Antiquities de la ville de Rome” by on pp. 111-171. The 48 wood- to two copies I owned several years ago).

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS ONE OF THE BEST SCHOLARLY An even more sustaining contribution appears in the pages of Venuti’s book, which contains a number of passages lifted directly GUIDEBOOKS TO ANCIENT ROME from the Antichita Romane.” (p. 56). The present book was the best WITH 19 ETCHINGS BY PIRANESI known of Venuti’s works and is especially esteemed for its fine collection of etched, drypoint and engraved plates, especially 11. VENUTI, RIDOLFINO.Accurata, e succincta descrizione those by Piranesi. Cicognara 3905. Schudt 769. Rossetti 1234. topografica delle Antichita di Roma... Rome: Presso Gio: Battista Bernabo Berlin Catalogue 1891. Hind, Piranesi, p. 78. e Guiseppe Lazzarini, 1763 $6500.00 2 vols. 4to, full cont. dyed green calf with gilt rolls on the cover edges, highly gilt spines with ornamental stamps, red lettering pieces & oval number pieces; orig. marbled end papers and all First edition of Venuti’s major work on Rome, remarkable for the edges gilt. A fine English binding. xxxvi+143 pp with 4 etched vignettes; viii+143+(3) pp with 4 etched vignettes. With lg. fdg. map (not present in all copies) and 96 plates. Engraved bookplate of inclusion of 20 full-page plates by Piranesi, originally published in the Charles Kent, Vicar of Ludford & printed bookplate of Albert Hooper. Scattered light foxing (not Varie Vedute of 1748-50 and among his earliest mature work. The other offensive); bindings scuffed and rubbed. plates are by LeGeay, Duflos, Bellicard and some more pedestrian work by Nicolo Mogalli. The work was published under the auspices of the Roman Society of Antiquaries whose Roman and English corresponding members are listed at the end and include James Adam, Thomas Hollis ‘of the Hide (sic) in Essex’, James Byres, Architect; Henry Flitcroft (architect), Thomas Hollis F.R.S., Thomas Jenkins, William Kent, and Richard Wilson. Ridolfino Venuti (1705-1763) was a “researcher and writer of great modernity” (Wikipedia) and was a famous archaeologist, curator of the Albani Museum in Rome, and an expert on the history and topography of ancient Rome. The present work is cited in the newly- published Piranesi Unbound (Princeton 2020) by Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor: “That book [Venuti] incudes small plates by Piranesi, who was also a subscriber to the volume.

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12. VASI, MARIANO. Itinerario instruttivo di Roma o sia descrizione generale delle opera piu insigni di pittura, scultura, e architettura e di tutti i monumenti antichi, e moderne... Rome: Luigi Perego Salvion, 1791 $1000.00 First published in Italian in 1763, there were numerous editions of this famous work (all of chapter XII of Schudt, pp. 274-286, is devoted to Vasi. The present edition is Schudt 311. This is a particularly valuable guidebook due to the numerous and very charming plates and illustrations; there are 2 folding engraved maps, 38 etched or engraved text vignette views (the list of illustrations calls for 36), and 12 full- page engr plates (each with two images). They were all etched or engraved by Vasi. Also a title page vignette to each volume. Volume II has an extensive index. For an interesting and instructive note on all the Vasi editions see J. Tice & J. Harper, Guiseppe Vasi’s Rome, lasting impressions from the age of the Grand Tour (2011), entry 102. Rossetti G- 1336.

2 vols in one. Small 8vo, old marbled thin boards, amateurish re-spine with a piece of vellum and orig. printed paper spine label. xii+824 pp. with illustrations as listed above plus a frontispiece portrait of Pope Pius VI.

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS STENDHAL’S “PROMENADES DANS guidebooks to Rome, this one proposes a tour to see Rome in ten days (vol I, p. 455). The appendix to the second volume gives ROME” chronologies of Roman emperors, popes, celebrated painters, sculptors, and architects; also in the appendix a brief history of 13. STENDHAL. Promenades dans Rome. Bruxelles: Louis Human painting in Italy. Frontispiece to vol I is a lithographed view of the et Comp., Libraires, 1830 $750.00 facade of St. Peters; for vol II it is a view of the Column of Trajan. Stendhal was a pen name; his real name was Marie-Henri Beyle Bound in at the rear of vol I is a folding plan of ancient Rome. (1783-1842), born and died in France. The first edition of this book Rossetti G-1555. Of this edition OCLC locates just one copy in was published in Paris in 1829; as befits his status as a world class America (Yale). writer (“one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism”), 2 vols. 12mo, orig. sheep spines, embossed paper sides. (ii)+iv+355; (iv)+468 pp first editions go for between $4000 and $5500. And they are more with litho frontisp to each vol and litho folding map. Nice copies. common than this Brussels edition. Like many, if not most,

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS MIRABILIA URBIS ROMAE Biondo’s Roma Instaurata, written in 1444 and circulated in manuscript; it was printed in 1481. Modern critical attention was FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH first drawn to the different versions by the 19th century TRANSLATION archaeologist of Christian Rome, Giovanni Battista de Rossi...In 1889 Francis Morgan Nichols published the first English 14. NICHOLS, FRANCIS MORGAN.Mirabilia Urbis Romae. the translation, which was reprinted in 1986 by the Italica Press.” Marvels of Rome or a picture of the Golden City. An English version of the The present edition is scarce; OCLC locates five copies in mediaeval guide book with a supplement of illustrative matter and notes by American libraries. Rossetti G-2315. See also Printing and the mind of FMN. London: Ellis & Elvey; Rome: Spithoever, 1889 $350.00 man, 12, with an interesting note.

First edition of the first English 8vo, orig. publisher’s cream colored translation. Wikipedia provides a cloth, top edge gilt, untrimmed good note which puts this into (spine rubbed). xxiii+205 pp with 2 illus (one folding). Bookplates of context: Mirabilia Urbis Romae John Gere and Paul Hetherington. (“Marvels of the City of Rome”) is a much-copied mediaeval Latin text that served generations of pilgrims and tourists as a guide to the city of Rome. The original, which was written by a canon of St. Peter’s, dates from the 1140s. The text survives in numerous manuscripts... Its authority was unquestioned until the 15th century, when two authors set out to supersede it with new descriptions from a fresh Renaissance point of view. One was Leon Batista’s Alberti’s Descriptio urbis Romae, written ca. 1433. Another was Flavio

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