IOANNIS // BAPTISTAE // PIRANESII // ANTIQVARIORVM // REGIAE ^ SOCIETATIS // LONDINENSIS // SOCII // CAMPVS MARTIVS // ANTIQVAE // VRBIS // ROMAE < MDCCLXII // ROBERTO // ADAM // BRITANNO // ARCHITECTO // CELEBERRIMO // Veneunt apud Auctorem in aedibus Comitis Thomati via Felici prope templum SS. Trinitatis in Monte Pincio. // Piranesi F.

Romae/Rome: Veneunt apud Auctorem in ædibus Comitis Thomati via Felice prope templum SS. Trinitatis in Monte Pincio; [ watermarks indicate:], c.1770’s-1790’s. Binding: Contemporary half calf with marbled boards; spine with five (5) blind raised bands, flanked by gilt tooling; gilt lettered title on Morocco label on two; contemporary pasted and free endpapers; all edges speckled red., Notes: Text in Italian; captions in Latin.
This work was dedicated by Piranesi to one of his highly esteemed co-workers (during the 1750’s), Robert Adam. Concerning the Rome 1762 edition, Luigi Ficacci states: “Edition Rome 1762. Engraved title on the title page: The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome, the Work of G. B. Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, London. The Latin title page bears the title, the date of the edition, and the dedication to Robert Adam. The address is: “Veneunt apud Auctorem in aedibus Comitis Thomati via Felice prope Templum SS. Trinitatis in Monte Pincio”.
The genesis of the work goes back to the second half of the 1750s: its publication is announced as imminent in the first volume of Antichita Romane (1756). The large Plan of Campo Marzio and 6 copperplates (“Ichnographia” or plan of the Campus Martius, ill. 493), executed in collaboration with Robert Adam and dedicated to him, is dated 1757 on the plate. The approbatio is dated 1761. The plate by Vesterhout (plate XXXI, …) reproduces the technical solution adopted by Carlo and Francesco Fontana for restoration of the Column of Antonius Pius in 1705.”
, Size: Folio (542x406mm). , Illustration: Etched copper engravings with illustrated title in Latin, illustrated title in Italian, ornamental head-piece and engraved decorative copper initial at A1r; the initial opens the text. Tab. I-XLVIII, plus three full page engravings entitled “Sepulchrum Mariae Honorij Imp. Uxoris …”, “Labrum aegyptiacum porphyreticum…”, and Nonnulla monumenta sepulcralia, quae recensentur…”; these 51etchings include double-page plates numbered V-X forming the plan of the Campus Martius and one double page plate # XXXII; two triple or oversized folding plates numbered II and XXXI; a single page numbered XLVIII depicting three copper plates, entitled “Elevazione de’ Teatri…” , “Elevazione del Pantheon…” and “Elevazione dell’ Anfiteatro”; single pages two [half-page] copper plates each - numbered XII (entitled “Hypsographia…” and “Sectio…”) and XLVI (entitled “A Reliquiae…” and “Orthographia…”) respectively; the remaining copper plates are full page in size. Plate XXXI was engraved by Vesterhout* after Fontana.
Thick, wide margined paper; many watermarks, pointing this Roman edition to the time frame of 1770’s -1790’s. Examples of watermarks: an unlisted on both free endpapers with an inner fleur de lis design within a circle; #19 (1790’s) at plate 43; #68 (probably 1790’s) at plate 35; #59 (mid 1770’s -1790’s) at plates 31 and 32; #64 (1790’s) also on plate 31; # 12 (late 1780’s -1790’s) at plate 30; #14 (mid 1761) or #16 (1790’s) at plate 29; #59 (mid 1770’s -1790’s) and 64 (1790’s) at insert plate 21 entitled Scenographia Machinae qua Clemente XI. Pont. Max. An. D. MDCCV; #74 (1790’s) on unnumbered plate entitled “Sepulchrum Mariae Honorij Imp. Uxoris” generally featured as headpiece vignette of the Latin text.; #12 (late 1780’s -1790’s) on unnumbered plate, entitled “Labrum aegyptiacum porphyreticum…”, here as full plate, otherwise a headpiece of the Latin text.
*Plate XXXI, depicting the excavation of the Antonine column in 1705, was signed by both, its engraver, Arnold Van Westerhout or Vesterhout, and by its designer and artist, Franciscus Fontana. The second illustrated title or title in Italian reads: 'Il Campo Marzio Dell'Antica Roma'.
, References: Luigi Ficacci, pp. 394-431; Focillon (1964): 428-479; Hind (1978): 85; Millard iv (2000): 91; RIBA, Early Pr. iii (1999): 2551; Wilton-Ely (1994): plates 559-612. , Pages: Ll: Bl., Illustrated title in Latin, A1-H2, a1-c2 (with catalogue and indices); illustrated title in Italian; Tab.I-XLVIII plus three full-leaf unnumbered plates, bl. , Category: Book Art, Architecture & Design; Book Europe Italy; Book Antiquities; Book Plate Books General;. Plates and text crisp and clean, near fine. Thick, wide margined paper. Item #B6607

Binding: Contemporary half calf with marbled boards; spine with five (5) blind raised bands, flanked by gilt tooling; gilt lettered title on Morocco label on two; contemporary pasted and free endpapers; all edges speckled red., Notes: Text in Italian; captions in Latin.
This work was dedicated by Piranesi to one of his highly esteemed co-workers (during the 1750’s), Robert Adam. Concerning the Rome 1762 edition, Luigi Ficacci states: “Edition Rome 1762. Engraved title on the title page: The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome, the Work of G. B. Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, London. The Latin title page bears the title, the date of the edition, and the dedication to Robert Adam. The address is: “Veneunt apud Auctorem in aedibus Comitis Thomati via Felice prope Templum SS. Trinitatis in Monte Pincio”.
The genesis of the work goes back to the second half of the 1750s: its publication is announced as imminent in the first volume of Antichita Romane (1756). The large Plan of Campo Marzio and 6 copperplates (“Ichnographia” or plan of the Campus Martius, ill. 493), executed in collaboration with Robert Adam and dedicated to him, is dated 1757 on the plate. The approbatio is dated 1761. The plate by Vesterhout (plate XXXI, …) reproduces the technical solution adopted by Carlo and Francesco Fontana for restoration of the Column of Antonius Pius in 1705.”
, Size: Folio (542x406mm). , Illustration: Etched copper engravings with illustrated title in Latin, illustrated title in Italian, ornamental head-piece and engraved decorative copper initial at A1r; the initial opens the text. Tab. I-XLVIII, plus three full page engravings entitled “Sepulchrum Mariae Honorij Imp. Uxoris …”, “Labrum aegyptiacum porphyreticum…”, and Nonnulla monumenta sepulcralia, quae recensentur…”; these 51etchings include double-page plates numbered V-X forming the plan of the Campus Martius and one double page plate # XXXII; two triple or oversized folding plates numbered II and XXXI; a single page numbered XLVIII depicting three copper plates, entitled “Elevazione de’ Teatri…” , “Elevazione del Pantheon…” and “Elevazione dell’ Anfiteatro”; single pages two [half-page] copper plates each - numbered XII (entitled “Hypsographia…” and “Sectio…”) and XLVI (entitled “A Reliquiae…” and “Orthographia…”) respectively; the remaining copper plates are full page in size. Plate XXXI was engraved by Vesterhout* after Fontana.
Thick, wide margined paper; many watermarks, pointing this Roman edition to the time frame of 1770’s -1790’s. Examples of watermarks: an unlisted on both free endpapers with an inner fleur de lis design within a circle; #19 (1790’s) at plate 43; #68 (probably 1790’s) at plate 35; #59 (mid 1770’s -1790’s) at plates 31 and 32; #64 (1790’s) also on plate 31; # 12 (late 1780’s -1790’s) at plate 30; #14 (mid 1761) or #16 (1790’s) at plate 29; #59 (mid 1770’s -1790’s) and 64 (1790’s) at insert plate 21 entitled Scenographia Machinae qua Clemente XI. Pont. Max. An. D. MDCCV; #74 (1790’s) on unnumbered plate entitled “Sepulchrum Mariae Honorij Imp. Uxoris” generally featured as headpiece vignette of the Latin text.; #12 (late 1780’s -1790’s) on unnumbered plate, entitled “Labrum aegyptiacum porphyreticum…”, here as full plate, otherwise a headpiece of the Latin text.
*Plate XXXI, depicting the excavation of the Antonine column in 1705, was signed by both, its engraver, Arnold Van Westerhout or Vesterhout, and by its designer and artist, Franciscus Fontana. The second illustrated title or title in Italian reads: 'Il Campo Marzio Dell'Antica Roma'.
, References: Luigi Ficacci, pp. 394-431; Focillon (1964): 428-479; Hind (1978): 85; Millard iv (2000): 91; RIBA, Early Pr. iii (1999): 2551; Wilton-Ely (1994): plates 559-612. , Pages: Ll: Bl., Illustrated title in Latin, A1-H2, a1-c2 (with catalogue and indices); illustrated title in Italian; Tab.I-XLVIII plus three full-leaf unnumbered plates, bl. , Category: Book Art, Architecture & Design; Book Europe Italy; Book Antiquities; Book Plate Books General;.

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