Speculum romanae magnificentiae
Publisher: Lafréry
Published: 1575
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Views; History; Pictorial works
Notes: Publisher's collection of engraved plates illustrating architecture and sculpture of Rome and miscellaneous subjects relating to contemporary events in Rome; the plates were sold separately over a number of years and bound issues vary from copy to copy.

Most of the plates by the publisher Lafréry, though he also included the plates of other engravers and owners of the sixteenth century collection often augmented it themselves with late sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century plates.

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

Mortimer, R. ^Italian 16th cent., 247

Purchase; William H. Schab; July 1942; 42-115.

Without a title page; thirty-five plates signed by Lafréry and dated from 1548 to 1575; other plates in this copy range in date from 1545 to 1591.

Bound in early 17th century half-vellum pastepaper covered boards.