Antiquae urbis splendor
Subtitle: hoc est praecipua eiusdem templa, amphitheatra, theatra, circi, naumachiae, arcus triumphales, mausolea aliaque sumptuosiora aedificia, pompae item triumphalis et colossaearum imaginum descriptio : opera & industria Iacobi Lauri Romani in aes incisa atque in lucem edita : addita est breuis quaedam et succincta imaginum explicatio in qua regum consulum imperatorūq : res gestae et rei romanae origo progressus incrementum, ac finis cū almae urbis antiquor. ac modernor. uestigior. additione utcunq : hoc insequenti anno 1630 reperiūtur, et ex ueterū ac recentior. historiar. monumentis clare ostenditur
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1637
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Architecture; History; Antiquities
Notes: Introduction (1 leaf) in Italian by Giovanni Alto, Svizzero da Lucerna, dated 1637.

Engr. title-pages; title-pages of parts 2-4 included in number of plates.

Text in Latin engraved at bottom of most plates ; some plates in part 4 have letterpress in Italian.

Part 2 has title: Antiquitatum urbis liber secundus ... Romae, 1613; pt. 3: ... Antiquae urbis splendoris cōplementū ... 1615; pt. 4: Antiquae urbis vestigia quae nunc extant ... Romae, 1628.

Includes "Tavola del libre di tutte le figure..." (1 leaf).

With : Sadeler, Gilles. Vestigi della antichita di Roma , Tivoli, Pozzuolo et altri luochi. Stampati in Ptaga : da Aegidio Sadeler ... , 1606.

Tipped in are two large folded engravings, by Louis Rouhier, of Bernini's 'Fountain of the Four Rivers,' mid 17th C.