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medaglie, & altre cose notabili. Con le vite, & effigie de' primi re d'essa. E le dichiarationi di Bartolomeo Marliani milanese, e d'altri autori. Rome: per Andrea Fei, 1627. First edition, 8vo., numerous engravings in the text and with 3 leaves of illustrations at the end, blind stamped vellum, several signatures with water staining to the upper outer corners, small hole in engraving 82, book plate of John Bury, USTC 4000620; Manilli, Giacomo Villa Borghese fuori di Porta Pinciana descritta da Iacomo Manilli romano guardarobba di detta villa. Rome: per Lodovico Grignani, 1650. With 2 engraved plates (1 a folding plate of the Villa), contemporary vellum, gilt ruled, with gilt felurons in the corners and a gilt vase of flowers as a centrepiece, small blind oval stamp of Giannalisa Feltrinelli on the title page and with the book plate of John Bury, USTC 4021294; Felibien des Avaux, Andre Les plans et les descriptions de des deux plus belles maisons de campagne de Pline le Consul. Paris: Delaulne, 1699. First edition, 8vo., with 7 engraved plates (of which 5 are folding), contemporary sprinkled calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, later gilt monogram on the covers, partly erased early ownership signature on the title page, with the book plates of John and Michel Bury (3)
Footnote
Note: Totti's guide shows ancient Rome as it was in Totti's time and as he thought it had originally been. The views are highly valuable for the historian of Roman topography, and the "restorations" interesting for the reflection of contemporary architecture. Felibien's reconstruction of Pliny's villas through an analysis of the author's letters foreshadows the rise of Romantic classicism. Felibien supplies the Latin text with his own translation and copious notes. Felibien also reproduces the description of the Laurentine villa by Scamozzi, who records discrepancies that occur in the Pliny documents. Scamozzi's text appears in the original Italian with Felibien's French translation and notes. The work concludes with Felibien's Dissertation touchant l'architecture antique et l'architrecture gothique.