Roma vetus ac recens, utriusque aedificiis ad eruditam cognitionem expositis
By: auctore Alexandro Donato e Societate Jesu
Contributors: Honervogt, Jacques, active 1654-1656; Lelli, Giovanni Antonio, ca. 1580-1640; Alamannus, Ant
Edition: Tertio edita, ac multis in locis ne dum aucta & castigatior reddita; verum etiam figuris aeneis veterum aedificiorum integritatem, & eorundem reliqua vestigia fideliter exprimentibus, illustrata.
Publisher: Ex bibliotheca fratrum de Rubeis ...
Published: 1725
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 537
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Description and travel; Antiquities; Buildings, structures
Notes: 3rd ed. first published 1662. See Schudt.

First 2 & last 2 p. blank.

Frontispiece from 1st ed. of 1638, there engraved by J.F. Greuter after Giovanni Antonio Lilli, has been copied by Jacques Honervogt. Folded view of Capitoline facing p. 113 signed by Ant. Alamanus as draughtsman. Etched and engraved views of Roman buildings mostly full page. In-text ill. are mostly woodcuts of coins & medals. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Ill. on P2r and P3r repeated on Y4r and Y5r.

Signatures: pi⁶ A-2K⁸ 2L⁸(-2L5,6) a⁸. Cancelled leaves 2L5,6 (retained in Getty copy of 1665 issue) bore text on Innocent X's building program.

Includes index.

Schudt, L.  Guide di Roma, 744

Sloan candidate lp Tier 3