Admiranda Romanarum antiquitatum ac veteris sculpturae vestigia anaglyphico opere elaborata...
1693 Second Edition (after the very rare undated first edition), complete with 84 large folio engraved plates by Bartoli. An extremely large copy with original wrappers bound-in and pages uncut.
Bartoli was "one of the leading figures in a circle of artists, patrons and scholars in seventeenth century Rome who were deeply interested in the study of classical antiquity… Bartoli was himself both artist and antiquarian… Though his early training was as a painter, it is chiefly as an etcher/engraver that he is celebrated. His practice in copying stood him in good stead for the work which he is now remembered: illustrating the statues and monuments of classical Rome. The volumes of prints after classical sculpture (often with commentary by Bellori)… include Colonna Traiana (1665), which Pope Alexander VII eagerly perused on publication, and Colonna Antoniana (1672). A selection of famous works appeared in Admiranda romanarum antiquitatum (1675[?]; 2nd ed., 1693)” (Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology). With engraved title, dedication and 82 engraved scenes and monuments (the plates numbered 1-84).
Note: The first edition from c.1685 (undated) is extremely rare and almost always found incomplete.
Rome: Joanne Jacobus de Rubeis, 1693. Large oblong folio (approx. 16 x 20 in); 20th-century blue cloth with original wrappers bound-in. Cloth with paper label remnants, repairs to original wrappers. Light dampstaining to extreme margin of several plates; one plate with dampstaining into image. A beautiful copy, with strong plate impressions and very large margins.
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