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    • Author/Creator:Sandrart, Joachim von, 1606-1688, author.
    • Title:Romae antiquae et novae theatrum, sive, Genuina ac vera urbis, juxta varios ejusdem status, delineatio topographica : unà cum primariis illius aedificiis ac monumentis, veluti templis, simulacris, circis, campis, theatris, arcubus, porticibus, columnis, statuis & sepulcris antiquis, praecipuè verò modernis templis, palatiis & aedificiis, nonaginta tabulis aeneis exhibitis & secundùm nobilioris architecturae simulac perspectivae regulas extructis, ruinisq́ue illustrioribus / curante Joachimo à Sandrart ...
    • Publication:Norimbergae : Typis Christiani Sigismundi Frobergii, sumtibus autoris, anno Christi 1684.
    • Physical Description:[2], 15, [1] pages, [108] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 40 cm (folio)
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: N7420 .S26d+ Oversize
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BAC N7420 .S26d+: Bound in later red leather, stamped in gold on front covers with armorial of Mark Masterman Sykes, baronet, of Sledmere, beneath the initials S.M.M. Armorial bookplates: John, Duke of Bedford; "Du cabinet de [blank]". Has bound with it: Palatiorum Romanorum à celeberrimis sui aevi architectis erectorum pars prima[-tertia] (Norimbergae : Sumptibus Ioh. Iacobi de Sandrart, [1694]).
    • Notes:Largely copied, without acknowledgement, from Falda's Palazzi di Roma. See: British Architectural Library.
      The added engraved title (or frontispiece) includes the title in Latin and German. Plates are numbered I-XXXXXVIIII, with 12 additional plates whose numbers are distinguished from those of the main sequence by 1-3 asterisks. Of the total of 71 prints, 36 are printed across facing leaves; plate [28], a bird's-eye view of modern Rome, is double sheet. Some plates signed by etchers Johann Azelt, Johann Franck, Johann Meyer, and Johann Jakob von Sandrart.
      Signatures: [pi]1 A-B⁴.
    • Variant and related titles:Genuina ac vera urbis, juxta varios ejusdem status, delineatio topographica
      German title on frontispiece : Dess alten und neuen Roms grosser Schauplatz
    • Format:Book
    • References:British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 2894
      Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 3872
      Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (VD 17), 23:300768B
    • Subjects:Rome (Italy)--Antiquities--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
      Rome (Italy)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Sykes, Mark Masterman, Sir, 1771-1823--Binding.
      Bedford, John, Duke of--Bookplate.
      Oratorians--Italy--Naples--Inscription.
    • Genre/Form:Etchings.
      Armorial bindings.
      Booksellers' labels (Provenance)--Libri rari Fiametta soave, Roma.
    • Also listed under:Falda, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1640-1678.
      Azelt, Johann, 1654- engraver.
      Franck, Johann, active 1659-1690, engraver.
      Meyer, Johann, 1655- engraver.
      Sandrart, Johann Jakob von, 1655-1698, engraver.
      Frobergius, Christianus Sigismundus, 1650-approximately 1723, printer.
      Germany--Nurnberg.