DE COLUMNA TRAIANI SYNTAGMA. Explicatio veteris tabellae anaglyphae Homeri Iliadem atque ex Stesichoro Arctino et Lesche Ilii excidium continentis. FABRETTI, Raffaele (1618-1700). tick

TITLE CONTINUED: Emissarii Lacus Fucini Descriptio unacum Historia Belli Dacici a Traiano Caes. Gesti. Auctore F. Alphonso Ciacono Hispano. SECOND EDITION 1690, LATIN TEXT. Tall 4to, approximately 325 x 215 mm, 12½ x 8½ inches, title with woodcut device, 2 folding plates, approximately 150 woodcut illustrations in the text, various sizes, 5 full page, plus several pages with printed circles with text inside (see image), pictorial initials and a few headpieces, pages: [2], 1-420, [64] - last page blank, full contemporary vellum, gilt lettered label to spine, all edges red. Vellum rubbed and scuffed, a few small holes and 1 tiny crack to spine, slight wear to head and tail of spine, corners bumped, 1 folding plate lightly age-browned, occasional pale age-browning and light foxing, old ink note in bottom margin of title page and page 37, another in fore-edge margin of page 408, shallow creasing to first few pages, small patch of worming to first and last pastedowns, otherwise a very good copy. Fabretti wrote extensively on Roman antiquarian subjects, including works on acqueducts, Trajan's column, and epigraphy. See: Sergio Rossetti, Rome, A Bibliography from the Invention of Printing, Volume 2, page 430, No. 4798; Sotheby's, The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, Part 10, page 118, No. 3474. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.