Accession number
PML 77776
Creator
Dosio, Giovanni Antonio, 1533-approximately 1609.
Published
[Rome] : Io. Baptista de Cavarleriis, MXLXIX Kal Mai [May 1569].
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman,
Description
50 plates : all illustrations (etchings) ; 28 x 21 cm (4to)
Notes
Each plate with a caption and number, 1-50.
Binding
16th-century (or early 17th?) Spanish light brown morocco, sides panelled in gilt and blind, double fleurons at inner angles, gilt arms of Marqúes de Moya in the central oval on both covers; brass clasps; leaf edges gilt and gauffered, with calligraphic
Variant title
Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustrium quae supersunt reliquiae
Provenance
Francisco Perez de Cabrera y Bobadilla, marqúes de Moya (1565-1627), armorial binding; W.J. Moore, Windsor 1832, inscription (front pastedown); Breslauer, cat. 107, no. 114; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Breslauer as the gift of Julia P. Wightm
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