Description
adonde se veen el movimiento de las agujas y las canales, por donde viene a Roma el agua felice, las anchas y acomodadas calle. Rome: por Hieronimo Francino por Alexandro Gardano, y Francisco Coattini compañeros, 1589. 8vo., title page ion red and black with a woodcut headpiece, with a 103 woodcut illustrations, 19th century light tan calf, bind decorated boarders, upper cover with the arms of Sir William Stirling of Pollock, spine decorated in blind, rebacked, by Charles Hering, very light worming of the lower inner margins throughout, with the bookplates of William Stirling, Charles Brooke, and John and Michael Bury
Footnote
Note: USTC 348290. Spanish edition of a guide first published in Venice in 1588, the year in which Sixtus V announced one of the four special holy years and Rome, doubtless in anticipation of the huge increase in pilgrims to the Holy City generated by such events. It has been called the first true guide to the City. It went through numerous editions and its illustrations appeared for decades after to illustrate similar guidebooks. It includes a Spanish translation of Palladio's L'antichità di Roma with a separate title page. The Stirling-Maxwell arms very similar to stamp 2 University of Toronto British armorial bindings. (https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/STI003 22.10.18) Probably lot 41 Sotheby's, Oct 17, 1978.