WALL MAP. AQUILA. Chronologia Summorum Romanorum

AQUILA, Pietro. Chronologia Summorum Romanorum Pontificum.Roma, Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, 1681
Engraving series on 17 sheets. 16 Elephant Folio, 635x510 mm; one, 202x510 mm. Lettered with title along the top, and on the separate plate on the smaller sheet the caption of the print, “Io. Iacobus de Rubeis formis Romae, ad Templum S.Mariae de Pace. Anno Iubil. 1675 cum Privil. S. Pontific.” Very nice specimen, with wide margins, uncut.
Condition Report: The complete series, extremely rare, with the popes of Rome in 251 numbered portraits, from Jesus Christ, to Clement X, shown in circular medallions over 16 sheets. In the first four sheets, at the top, part of the title. With the joined sheets the complete title appears: "Chronologia Summorum Romanorum Pontificum in qua habentur verae eorum effigies ex antiquis numismatibus et picturis delineatae, ac nomina cognomina ... ab. Anastasio, Luitprando, Panvinio, Baronio.” The series can then be combined to form a large plate consisting of four by four sheets. At the British Museum there are only a few single portraits, cut from the large original sheets .