Prospectus Colossæi…Arcus Costantini Locorumq(ue) Adjacentium

Reference: s31371
Author Franciscus HALMA
Year: 1697 ca.
Zone: Colosseo
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 350 x 360 mm
€500.00

Reference: s31371
Author Franciscus HALMA
Year: 1697 ca.
Zone: Colosseo
Printed: Amsterdam
Measures: 350 x 360 mm
€500.00

Description

From Beschryving van oud en nieuw Rome Written by François Jacques Deseine and published in Amsterdam by Franz Halm in 1704, in 2 vv.

The plate shows in the top a beautiful view of the Colosseo and surrounding area, after a drawing by L. Cruyl.
At the bottom of the plate, two insets depicting S. Spirito in Sassia and the external apse of the Basilica of St. Peter, after Giovanni Battista Falda.

Etching and engraving, in very good condition.

Literature

B. Jatta, Lievin Cruyl e la sua opera grafica, p. 161.

Franciscus HALMA (1653 - 1722)

A book publisher who started business in Utrecht and later moved to Amsterdam and finally settled in Leeuwarden .Included in his prolific output of historical and theological work were issues of the atlases detailed below. 1695 Ptolemy’s Geographia re-issues at Utrecht of Mercator’s 1578 edition : further issues1698(Franeker) 1704 (Utrecht) (See also Appendix A.) 1704 Geographia Sacra c. 1705-09 Description de tout l’Univers 1718 Atlas of Friesland re-issue of work by Schotanus van Sterringa (1698)

Literature

B. Jatta, Lievin Cruyl e la sua opera grafica, p. 161.

Franciscus HALMA (1653 - 1722)

A book publisher who started business in Utrecht and later moved to Amsterdam and finally settled in Leeuwarden .Included in his prolific output of historical and theological work were issues of the atlases detailed below. 1695 Ptolemy’s Geographia re-issues at Utrecht of Mercator’s 1578 edition : further issues1698(Franeker) 1704 (Utrecht) (See also Appendix A.) 1704 Geographia Sacra c. 1705-09 Description de tout l’Univers 1718 Atlas of Friesland re-issue of work by Schotanus van Sterringa (1698)