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Le Antichità della Città di Roma

Tags: Ancient Rome, Architecture, Colisseum, Rome (Italy)

Roma aeterna Petri Schenkii

This publication by Amsterdam publisher and engraver Peter Schenk is typical of those that were appearing at the turn of the 18th century. The page shown depicts the ruins of the aqueduct the Aqua Marcia. It conveyed water to both the baths of…

Tags: Antiquity, Architecture, Rome (Italy), Special Collections

Aedificiorvm et rvinarvm Romae ex antiqvis atqve hodiernis monimentis liber primus

This book on the buildings and ruins of Rome by the 17th century artist and engraver, Giovanni Maggi, is typical of the works by which the ruins of antiquity became known outside Italy through that century. The remnant of the Temple of Jupiter Stator…

Tags: Antiquity, Architecture, Rome (Italy), Ruins, Special Collections

Romae antiquae notitia: or, the antiquities of Rome

First published in 1696, this short history by the Anglican churchman and scholar, Basil Kennett, recounts the rise, progress, and decay of Ancient Rome eighty years before Gibbon's Decline and fall …. A popular publication, it was reprinted no…

Tags: Antiquity, Rome (Italy), Special Collections

Trattato delle cose piu memorabili di Roma tanto antiche come modern

Tags: Guide book, Rome (Italy)

Roma al tempo di Benedetto XIV la pianta di Roma.

1 map in 12 sections ; 139 x 166 cm., sections each 35 x 56 cm. + explanatory book (35 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.
Scale indeterminable.
Reprint of 1748 map.
Title from explanatory book.

Tags: Eighteenth century, Image, Maps, Maps of Rome, Rome (Italy), Still Image

Pianta di Roma del 1676

1 map in 12 sections ; 148 x 145 cm., sections each 37 x 48 cm. + explanatory book (10 p. ; 43 cm.)
Scala di mille passi che fanno in miglio Italiano.
In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1676.
Facsimile reprint of 1676 edition.
Inset:…

Tags: Image, Maps, Maps of Rome, Rome (Italy), Seventeenth century, Still Image

Pianta di Roma del 1625

1 map in 12 sections ; 79 x 150 cm., sections each 25 x 37 cm. + explanatory book (31 p. ; 38 cm.)
Scale indeterminable.
In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1625

Tags: Image, Maps, Maps of Rome, Rome (Italy), Seventeenth century, Still Image

Recens prout hodie iacet almae vrbis Romae cum omnibus viis aedificiisque prospectus acuratissime delineatus

1 map in 12 sections ; 105 x 243 cm., sections each 51 x 40 cm. + explanatory book (12 p. ; 44 cm.)
Facsimile reprint on 1606 ed.
On case title: La pianta di Roma del 1606 (1593).

Tags: Image, Maps, Maps of Rome, Rome (Italy), Seventeenth century, Still Image