Le antichità della citta di Roma
Subtitle: raccolte sotto breuita da diuersi antichi & moderni scrittori
By: per M. Bernardo Gamucci da San Gimignano ; et con nuouo ordine fedelmente descritte, & rapresentate con bellissime figure, nel modo che à tempi nostri si ritrouano
Edition: In questa seconda editione da infiniti errori emendate & corrette / da Thomaso Porcacchi.
Publisher: Appresso Giovanni Varisco, & compagni
Published: 1580
Place of publication: In Vinegia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Rome (Italy); Guidebooks; Early works to 1800; Roman Antiquities; Buildings, structures; Antiquities
Notes: First published by Varisco in 1565 under title: Libri quattro dell'antichita della citta di Roma.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: A-2A⁸.

The woodcut ill. are from the same blocks as in the 1565 edition.

Some of the ill. are after drawings by Giovanni Antonio Dosio.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device).

Purchase; R. Cady; 1 March 1995; 94-902; $250 (Crocker fd.).

Gift; Thomas Hollis; 1764-1774; IC5.G1498.565ℓc.

From the library of Francis Stewart Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell, with "Franciscvs Stevardvs C A B" and "Spes Mea Christvs" gilt-stamped within cartouches on front and back covers respectively; 17th-century inscription of James Balfour in title page; ms. inscription "Oct. 5. 1723. Collat. & perfect. [P.?] Wright".

The gift of Thomas Hollis to the Harvard College Library.

Bound in contemporary brown calf, gilt oval centerpiece stamped on each cover, edges gilt (rebacked).

Bound in full contemporary vellum.