BELLORI G. P. & BARTOLI S.P.
£480
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Columna cochlis M. Aurelio Antonino Augusto dicata eius rebus gestis in Germanica atque Sarmatica expeditione insignis ... rebus notis Io. Petri Bellorii illustrata et a Petro Sancte Bartolo iuxta delineationes in Bibliotheca Barberina asservatas, ac eum antiquis ipsius columnae signis collatas aere incisa ... 2nd edition, engraved titlepage and dedicatory leaf to Pope Clement XI, 84 engraved plates, original quarter vellum, paper boards, fore-edges uncut, piece missing from top of spine, wrappers creased and worn at edges, small water stain to the upper margin of the title and first few leaves, some light spotting, oblong folio, Rome: ex chalcographia Dominici de Rubeis, 1704
Note: Cicognara 3605; Berlin Kat. 3623. First issued c1672, the work depicts the column of Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 174) which was erected in the Piazza Colonna to commemorate the Emperor's victorious campaigns against the German tribes north of the Danube. The crowning statue of Marcus Aurelius was replaced in 1589 by the existing statue of St. Paul