Rome

Reference: S48949
Author Alexandre de ROGISSART
Year: 1706
Zone: Rome
Printed: Leyden
Measures: 150 x 125 mm
€180.00

Reference: S48949
Author Alexandre de ROGISSART
Year: 1706
Zone: Rome
Printed: Leyden
Measures: 150 x 125 mm
€180.00

Description

Panorama of Rome taken from "Les delices de l'Italie, contenant une description exacte du Païs, des principales villes, de toutesa les Antiquitez"published for the first time in Leiden in 1706 by Pieter Vander Aa and later reprinted in Paris by Guillaume Cavelier.

Most copies of the second edition bear on the title page the indication Compagnie des libraires, an association of booksellers-printers whose membership has varied over the years but to which Guillaume Cavelier belonged.

The guide, which we know from Barbier I, 872 to be the work of Rogissart and Abbot Havard, is embellished with 152 plates,

Copperplate engraving with fine later hand colouring, in good condition.

Bibliografia

Marigliani (2007): p. 259, n. 169.

Alexandre de ROGISSART

A. De Rogissart is the author of the work "Les Delices de l'Italie …", published in Leiden in 1706 and reprinted in four volumes the following year in Paris.

Alexandre de ROGISSART

A. De Rogissart is the author of the work "Les Delices de l'Italie …", published in Leiden in 1706 and reprinted in four volumes the following year in Paris.