BESCHRYVING // VAN // OUD EN NIEUW // ROME, Verdeelt in drie Deelen.//. // In 't Fransch beschreven door den Heere // FRANÇOIS DESSEINE. //Achter Oud Romen is gevoegt ; // Her ANTYKE GRAF der // NAZOONEN, // Afgetekent en in ?t Koper gebragt door // P. SANCTUS BARTOLUS, // Nevens de Uitleggingen over deze aaloude Schildereyen, van // J. PETRUS BELLORIUS. // Uit het in Fransch en Latyn vertaalt, en met heerlyke // Konstprinten versiert. // T?AMSTERDAM // Gedrukt by FRANCOIS HALMA, Boekverkoper, // in Konstantyn den Grooten 1704. [Bound with:] Basilius Kennet: De Aaloudheden van Rome. Amsterdam, François Halma,

Desseine, Francois

Edité par Halma, Francois., Amsterdam, 1704

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Contemporary mottled, full brown calf, spine with six (6) raised bands; gilt ornamented compartments with gilt-lettered title on two (Morocco label) and three; all edges speckled brown. , Text in Nederduitsch or Dutch; captions also Latin.Two works in two volumes; first work in three parts. A rarely found complete example of this work in full decorative calf; "Beschryving van Oud en Nieuw Rome", the first Dutch translation of François Desseine's "Description de la Ville de Rome" first published in 1690, bound with W. Sewel's translation of B. Kennet's 1696 "Romae Antiquae Notitia, or the Antiquities of Rome?". François Desseine was a librarian; he died in Rome in 1715. Basil Kennett (1674 ? 1715) "was a Church of England cleric, ? president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford;", "academic, writer and translator, his work was considered the subject's standard handbook for a century.", Size : Folio (380 ×231mm), Illustrated with 4 frontispiece engravings for each of the 4 parts, numerous head and tailpieces and decorative drop caps, 160 single- and double-page plates (some of which in text), in addition with 24 maps (some of which are large folding maps), Engraved by Jan van Vianen and Jan Goeree. ". The splendid plates with views, maps, plans, antiquities, etc., to be highlighted are large plans of ancient and modern Rome, as well as the decorative map of Italy after J. Cantelli da Vignola.Illustrated with floral, ornamental and vignette woodcut initials ? large ones at openings and smaller ones throughout; large ornamental woodcut headpieces, incl. Medallions, and tailpieces, mainly floral; four (4) copper engraved titles, four (4) red and black ink printed titles each with a copper engraved printer's device; complete with full-, double-page and larger engraved folding maps, plans and depictions of antiquities of ancient and modern Rome as listed in vol I, part I, on **2, and part II, on ***2 ? these for volume I; inserts of folding and double-page maps and plates in work II (Kennet); moreover, numerous large in-text copper-engraved plates in both volumes. , References : Klaversma and Hannema: 436; Millard III: 24; Rossetti: 2265, 5869; Schudt: 555., Ll: Vol I: Bl., half-title, copper engraved allegorical title, red-black ink title, [11 ll.], pp. 1-22, *22-*23, 23-160, [+ill's]; half-title, [9 ll.], copper engraved title, red-black ink title, pp. 161 ? 360, bl.Vol II: Bl., copper engraved title, red-black ink title, half-title, pp. 363 - 479, [pp.83]; copper engraved title, red-black ink title, [pp.6], pp.1-260, [pp. 22], bl. Collation: bl., half-title, engraved title, red-black ink title, * 2-6, +4-6, **1-2, half-title, A1-3, A3- B4, *1-2, D1-&T4, V1-3, X, Half title, +1-2, ++, **1-2, ***1-2, *X, *V2, engraved title, red-black ink title, X1-Z4, Aa1-Yy4, bl. Vol II: Bl., engraved title, red-black ink title, Zz1-4, Aaa1-Nnn4, Ooo1-3, Ppp1-Zzz2, Aaaa1-Mmmm2; engraved title, red-black ink title, *3-4, **1, A1-Z4, Aa1-Mm4, Nn1, bl. Contemporary full calf decorative binding, renewed endpapers, second volume starting; overall, in near fine condition with very minor occasional stains, final leaf of vol II trimmed marginally; leaf A3 in vol I duplicated.

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• Titre: BESCHRYVING // VAN // OUD EN NIEUW // ROME, Verdeelt in drie Deelen.//. // In 't Fransch beschreven door den Heere // FRANÇOIS DESSEINE. //Achter Oud Romen is gevoegt ; // Her ANTYKE GRAF der // NAZOONEN, // Afgetekent en in ?t Koper gebragt door // P. SANCTUS BARTOLUS, // Nevens de Uitleggingen over deze aaloude Schildereyen, van // J. PETRUS BELLORIUS. // Uit het in Fransch en Latyn vertaalt, en met heerlyke // Konstprinten versiert. // T?AMSTERDAM // Gedrukt by FRANCOIS HALMA, Boekverkoper, ...
• Éditeur: Halma, Francois., Amsterdam
• Date de parution: 1704
• Reliure: Couverture rigide