Dosio, Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustrium quae supersunt, [Rome], 1569, modern marbled boards

Dosio, Giovanni Antonio. Cosmo Medici duci Florentinor. et Senens. Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustrium quae supersunt reliquiae summa cum diligentia a Ioanne Antonio Dosio stilo ferreo ut hodie cernuntur descriptae et a Io. Baptista de Cavaleriis aeneis tabulis incisis repraesentatae MDLXIX Kal. Mai. [Rome, 1 May 1569]

A set of architectural views of the Roman remains visible during Dosio's years in Rome (he was there from 1548 to 1575), notable for their lack of invention and embellishment of the physical remains. The title-page and most of the plates are printed in landscape format, but in this copy the plates are bound along the foot of the leaf.

4to (265 x 197 mm). Engraved title-page, 49 engraved plates (numbered 2-50) by Giovanni Battista Cavalieri. (Some light browning, title-page repaired at foredge.)

binding: Modern marbled boards (269 x 208 mm), by P. Goy and C. Vilaine, paper spine label.

acquisition: Purchased in 2012 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. references: Edit16 10447; Fowler 107; Rossetti 2317