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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo (d. ca. 1560). Urbis Romae topographia . Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544. 2° (306 x 215mm). 23 large woodcuts including a double-page map of Rome by Giovanni Battista Palatino and other maps, plans, elevations and statues, woodcut initials. (Light soiling, marginal repair to corner of final leaf.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving parts of old spine, some scuff marks, corners bumped). Provenance : Fidericii Morandi (ownership inscription and contemporary annotations) -- Fondo Breviario Scozzi (small orange stamp on title) -- unidentified monogram stamp on title -- G. Pedone Lauriel (book ticket).
MARLIANI, Bartolomeo (d. ca. 1560). Urbis Romae topographia . Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544. 2° (306 x 215mm). 23 large woodcuts including a double-page map of Rome by Giovanni Battista Palatino and other maps, plans, elevations and statues, woodcut initials. (Light soiling, marginal repair to corner of final leaf.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving parts of old spine, some scuff marks, corners bumped). Provenance : Fidericii Morandi (ownership inscription and contemporary annotations) -- Fondo Breviario Scozzi (small orange stamp on title) -- unidentified monogram stamp on title -- G. Pedone Lauriel (book ticket). FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, third edition, second issue. The work was first printed in octavo by Antonio Blado in Rome in 1534, followed in the same year by the second edition (Lyon: Gryphius). The large plan of ancient Rome was the first to be scientifically designed in ichnographic and orographic terms. Other illustrations include a statue of Hercules attributed to Pheidias, and an early depiction of the Laocoon group. When the Laocoon was discovered in 1506 the right arm of the statue was missing; it was replaced in terracotta by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli in the 1530s (removed about 1797), and it is with this early replacement that the group is here pictured. Adams M-610; Berlin Kat. 1831; Mortimer, Harvard Italian , 284; Schudt 605.