110 - SADELER (AEGIDIO & MARCO)

SADELER (AEGIDIO & MARCO) Vestigi delle antichità di Roma, Tivoli, Pozzuolo, and other places. Rome, de Rossi, 1660. Oblong folio, speckled brown calfskin, decorated spine, speckled edges (18th-century binding). Second edition of this charming series of views of Rome and other places based on works by Ægidius Sadeler and engraved by Marco Sadeler. It consists of a frontispiece and 50 numbered plates, including the dedication. From the library of Jean-Etienne de Meaux (1703–1763), with a coat-of-arms ex-libris. Binding rubbed and stained, corners worn, head and foot caps missing with leather losses, one joint split [Rome], sn, 1606 [=second half of the 17th century]. Oblong folio comprising [1] engraved title leaf and 50 engraved plates, including the dedication leaf and 49 beautiful views of Rome and its surroundings engraved by Marco Sadeler after Egidio Sadeler. Tear with no loss on plate 7. Marbled sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine (18th-century binding, with traces of cutouts from other sets of engravings collected in the same volume, but our set is complete). Includes 10 miscellaneous engravings (architecture), also from the 17th century, pasted at the end.