FONTANA, Carlo (1634--1714)
Il tempio Vaticano e sua origine con gl'edifitii più cospicui antichi, e moderni fatti dentro, e fuori di esso; descritto dal Cav. Carlo Fontana ... Con molte regole principali d'architettura, & operationi curiosissime, date in luce, e delineate dal medesimo, con un indice copiosissimo delle cose più notabili posto in fine. Opera divisa in sette libri, tradotta in lingua Latina da Gio: Gius: Bonnervë de Romain. ...
In Roma, nella stamparia di Gio: Francesco Buagni,, 1694.
[32], 167, [1], 173--211, [1], 225--244, 249--343, [1], 343--380, 385--417, [1], 427--489, [29] p., engr. port., [11] fold. pl. : 67 illus. ; 43.3 cm. (2°)

Parallel title-page in Latin reads: Templum Vaticanum et ipsius origo cum ædificiis maximè conspicuis antiquitùs, & recèns ibidem constitutis; ... Text mostly in parallel columns, Latin and English. To symplify the description, single-page engravings are described in the collation given above, following BAL, as illustrations included in the pagination or register; double-page engravings are not, even when hiatuses have been left in the pagination. This copy, like Fowler no. 122 lacks the engraved portrait in BAL 1096. BAL, Early printed books, no. 1096; Fowler 122.

Copy Notes Front free-endpaper inscribed in pencil 1.7-0.

Binding C17th sprinkled calf, gilt double-rule borders, gilt triple-rule inner panel with gilt-tooled corners, gilt-tooled spine, red morocco spine-label.

Reference Number 2275

Additional Names St. Peter's Basilica, Rome; Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano - Early works to 1800