Du Perac, Urbis Romae sciographia, Rome, [1649], large folding engraved map

DU PÉRAC, ETIENNE

Urbis Romae sciographia ex antiquis monumentis accuratiss. delineata. Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, [1649]

eight engraved map sections, each pasted on card and backed on linen (together 1040 x 1590mm.), with letterpress note from the printer to the reader and letterpress key cut out and pasted below the map, slightly browned and chipped at edges

A reprint of Du Pérac's map of Classical Rome, whose dedication to Charles IX of France is dated 1 April 1574. Unusually, this copy retains the letterpress note from the printer and the key to the map, containing a list of the monuments and the places depicted (which would originally have been printed on a single sheet).

LITERATURE:

Rossetti 2351