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Rome - Italy
BOSIO (Antonio)
Roma Subterranea Novissima... opera et studio Pauli Aringhi,... Coloniae, et Venaeunt Lutetiae..., Parisiorum, Leonard, 1659.
2 volumes in folio; engraved title, illustrated with woodcuts in the text and off-text etchings and a folded map depicting the plan, sarcophagi and decorations of the Christian catacombs of Rome. Very white paper.
Sow skin with stamped decoration on wooden boards, spine covered with tan basane, handwritten title, clasps well present, red edges. Nice copy.
First Parisian edition, rarer and more sought after than the Roman original of 1651 (Brunet I, 423).
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Rome - Italy
BOSIO (Antonio)
Roma Subterranea Novissima... opera et studio Pauli Aringhi,... Coloniae, et Venaeunt Lutetiae..., Parisiorum, Leonard, 1659.
2 volumes in folio; engraved title, illustrated with woodcuts in the text and off-text etchings and a folded map depicting the plan, sarcophagi and decorations of the Christian catacombs of Rome. Very white paper.
Sow skin with stamped decoration on wooden boards, spine covered with tan basane, handwritten title, clasps well present, red edges. Nice copy.
First Parisian edition, rarer and more sought after than the Roman original of 1651 (Brunet I, 423).
Automatically translated by DeepL. The original version is the only legally valid version.
To see the original version, click here.
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