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FALDA, Giovanni Battista (1648-1678). Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze e luoghi pubblici della cittá . Rome: Giacomo de Rossi, [ca.1691]. 4 parts in one volume, oblong 2° (268 x 315mm). 4 frontispieces, 4 dedications and 99 plates of which 3 folding, all engraved by Falda and Venturini. (Occasional light, mainly marginal, spotting.) Contemporary calf, gilt title covers (front cover detached, somewhat worn). Provenance : Charles William Vane, 3rd marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854, army officer and diplomatist; engraved bookplate).
FALDA, Giovanni Battista (1648-1678). Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze e luoghi pubblici della cittá . Rome: Giacomo de Rossi, [ca.1691]. 4 parts in one volume, oblong 2° (268 x 315mm). 4 frontispieces, 4 dedications and 99 plates of which 3 folding, all engraved by Falda and Venturini. (Occasional light, mainly marginal, spotting.) Contemporary calf, gilt title covers (front cover detached, somewhat worn). Provenance : Charles William Vane, 3rd marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854, army officer and diplomatist; engraved bookplate). 'This collection of plates is the most charming that has ever appeared on the fountains of Rome and its environs ... all copies examined vary in numbering and arrangement of plates' (Fowler). The precise date of the original publication is unknown but c. 1675-1685. The early impressions do not have the plate numbering which appeared later, perhaps with this edition, around 1691 (Berlin Kat.). BL, 17th century Italian books , p.327; Bruni and Evans, 4361; Cicognara 3863 (part I-III only); Fowler, pp. 97-99; RIBA 1014 (first edition); Berlin Kat. 3603-4.