Romae antiquae et novae theatrum, sive, Genuina ac vera urbis, juxta varios ejusdem status, delineatio topographica
Subtitle: unà cum primariis illius aedificiis ac monumentis, veluti templis, simulacris, circis, campis, theatris, arcubus, porticibus, columnis, statuis & sepulcris antiquis, praecipuè verò modernis templis, palatiis & aedificiis, nonaginta tabulis aeneis exhibitis & secundùm nobilioris architecturae simulac perspectivae regulas extructis, ruinisq́ue illustrioribus
By: curante Joachimo à Sandrart ...
Series: Sotheby's Milano
Publisher: Typis Christiani Sigismundi Frobergii, sumtibus autoris
Published: 1684
Place of publication: Norimbergae  [Nuremberg, Germany]
Language: lat; ger
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Antiquities; Pictorial works; Early works to 1800; Buildings, structures; Buildings
Other titles: Romae antiqvae et novae theatrum; Genuina ac vera urbis, juxta varios ejusdem status, delineatio topographica; Dess alten und neuen Roms grosser Schauplatz worinnen dessen fürtrefflichste Gebaue Vorgebildet sind; Recentis Romae Ichnographia et Hypsographia Sive Planta et Facies Ad Magnificentiam qua sub Alexandrio VII P.M. Urbs Ipsa Directa Exculta et Decorata est; Theatru Romae
Notes: Double-page frontispiece with title in Latin and German precedes title page.

Some plates have two images on plate/leaf.

Plates are numbered I-XXXXXVIIII, with 12 additional plates whose numbers are distinguished from those of the main sequence by 1-3 asterisks. Of the total of 71 numbered plates,  24 are double page; and an unnumbered folded map which takes the place of plate no. XXVII, a bird's-eye view of modern Rome, is a folded double sheet. Plate VI has 4 images on sheet; images numbered Fig. XVIII and Fig. XIX are on on same sheet; an additional plate has duplicate number XXXXV. Some plates signed by etchers Johann Azelt, Johann Franck, Johann Meyer, Johann Jakob von Sandrart.

Plates include title page, sections, elevations, plans, maps and head-piece.

Woodcut title vignette, initial, tailpieces.

Engraved headpiece and initial on page 1.

Double-page frontispiece title in Latin and German; plate captions in Latin and German.

Lib. copy from the library of Sergio Rossetti.

Lib. copy lot number 275 from Sotheby sale: Roma, la biblioteca Sergio Rossetti, Milan, Italy, February 20, 2018.

Lib. copy: "2 opere in un volume"--Sotheby's Milano auction catalog, page 167.

Lib. copy pagination: [4], [2], 15 pages, [112] leaves of plates; lib. copy pagination as follows: Double-page frontispiece, followed by title page, followed by text pages numbered 1-15, followed by plates numbered I-XXVI, followed by unnumbered  folded map of modern Rome, followed by plates numbered  XXVII-XXXXXVIII [12 additional plates whose numbers are distinguished from those of the main sequence by 1-3 asterisks], followed by plates numbered [Fig.] I-XL.

Lib. copy is 38 cm.

Plates are numbered I-XXXXXVIIII, with 12 additional plates whose numbers are distinguished from those of the main sequence by 1-3 asterisks. Of the total of 71 numbered plates, 24 are double page; and an unnumbered folded map which takes the place of plate no. XXVII, a bird's-eye view of modern Rome, is a folded double sheet. Plate VI has 4 images on sheet; images numbered Fig. XVIII and Fig. XIX are on on same sheet; an additional plate has duplicate number XXXXV (different images on plates).