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Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 9, 2021
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BARTOLI, Pietro Santi (ca 1635-1700). Columna cochlis M. Aurelio Antonino Augusto dicata.... Rome: Domenico de Rossi, 1704-1708.
Oblong folio (350 x 465 mm). Engraved title-page, engraved dedication leaf, engraved section title "Stylobates columnae Antoninae," 79 engraved plates (of 80, lacking plate 2), numbered 1-77 and I-III. (Some minor soiling, some minor marginal worming.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, edges stained red (rebacked preserving original spine).
Second edition of this depiction of the Antonine Column in Rome, erected between AD 172 and 196 to commemorate the victories of Marcus Aurelius. WITH THE RARE EXTRA PLATES labeled I-III and including the section title, not called for in the Berlin Katalog. Berlin Kat 3623; Cicognara 3605.
Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch