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Rome: Francesco Buagni, 1694. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First ed. Thick folio, 43 x 31 cm. Bound in fine later 3/4 calf over marbled boards. Very binding and cover. 6 raised bands, red morocco spine label. All edges red. Internally generally very good, with only light staining. Text in Latin and Italian. 79 engraved plates (10 double-page or folding) by Alessandro Specchi. Fontana's lavish and beautifully illustrated work on the Vatican and the Vatican obelisk, including the plates from his Della Trasportatione dell'obelisco vaticano published in 1590. Book VII includes a comparison of St. Peter's, the Pantheon and the Duomo in Florence. <br> Contents: Contents: 1. Cose piu notabile della potenza Romana --2. Antica basilica --3. Trasporto dell'obelisco --4. Portici, piazze --5. Tempio Vaticano --6. Spese --7. Pantheon & altri tempii. <br> Refs: Berlin Kat. 2678; Cicognara 3731; Fowler 122; Millard Italian 38; Brunet II, 1329. <br>Provenance:… Read More

Rome: Jo. Francisci Buagni, 1694. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. Large folio (415 x 312 mm). [32], 1-169, 173-205, 205-213, 221-245, 249-343, 343-489 [1], [28] pp. Letterpress titles in Latin and Italian, text in parallel columns in Latin and Italian, 79 engraved plates and plans (11 folding, 78 with pagination) by Alessandro Specchi after Carlo Fontana. Bound in contemporary full vellum, spine with 6 raised bands and gilt-lettered red morocco label (vellum soiled, extremities rubbed, slight bumping and wear to corners), red and black sprinkled edges, pastedowns with elaborate 18th century Dutch brokade paper, printed in gold with pattern relief in colours through stencil. Few pages little browned, brown stain to lower corner of some gatherings, but generally very bright, crisp and clean. Provenance: Thomas Brand, Esq. (armorial bookplate to front-pastedown). A very fine copy. ---- FIRST EDITION of this lavish book about the buildings of the Vatican. This… Read More

Romae, Ex Typographia Jo: Francisci Buagni, 1694. 2 volumes. Large folio, 427 x 308 mms., pp. [xxxii], 489, [28] with continuous pagination through both volumes, but with errors in pagination, e. g., pages 205-206 and 343-344 repeated in the numbering.and plates sometimes included, collating [a]² p² b6 c-d4 A-2B4 2C6 2D² 2E-3A4 3B6 3C-3F4 3G1 3H1 3I1 3K1 3L-3V4 3X6, 79 plates, many folding, bound in later18th century calf, black morocco labels; spines wormed and tender, but holding firm. A reasonable set, with spectacular plates and complete. The Italian architect Carlo Fontana (1634 or 1638–1714) "mainly worked in Rome, assisted by his nephews Girolamo and Francesco Fontana (1668–1708), but he sent a model for the cathedral of Fulda, and others to Vienna for the royal stables. Among his other foreign works were the designs for a Jesuit complex in Azpeitia, Spain, in the village of Loyola where Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order was born.… Read More

Rome, G. F Buagni, 1694.
Large folio [440 x 313 mm] of (16) ll., 489 pp., (28) pp., 79 engravings in the text, including 69 full-page and 10 folded.
" Roman binding of c. 1800, probably by the Vatican Bindery, for presentation of Paul I, Czar of Russia : bottle-green straight-grained morocco richly gilt, multiple roll-tooled borders round sides, including a vine border and a border composed of flowers on cured stems, the latter interspersed with a tool of a bearded triton's head ; inner fan-shaped cornerpieces, in centers the large Russian Imperial arms on an ermine mantle ; five raised bands on spine, in the second compartment a light-brown morocco lettering piece, the others closely gilt with a variety of rolls ; marbled liners and endleaves, gilt edges. " (Martin Breslauer).
First edition.
The engineer and architect Carlos Fontana (1634 or 1638-1714) took part in the revolutionary cycle of Baroque Rome that ended under Alexander VII and worked for pope Innocent XI. Still famous for his buildings in… Read More