DESCRIZIONE DEI CIRCHI PARTICOLARMENTE DE QUELLO, DI CARACALLA

BIANCONI, Giovanni Lodovico.  DESCRIZIONE DEI CIRCHI PARTICOLARMENTE DE QUELLO, DI CARACALLA.                                                 

Rome: Stamperia Pagliarini, 1789. Folio. Contemporary gilt vellum. xxi, cxxx, (i) pages, 20 engraved plates, of which 7 folding. First, and only, edition. [Brunet I, 848; Cicognara, 3619].

This monograph on the fourth century circus, known in the eighteenth century as the Circus of Caracalla, but later renamed Circus of Maxentius.  It is considered to be the best preserved ancient circus in Rome, popular with visitors on the Grand Tour.  The text is in French and Italian.  With the bookplate of Bielby Thompsons, a member of the Society of the Dilettanti and a noted connoisseur of ancient Roman and Grecian monuments.  Uncut, with wide margins.  Slight wear to extremities of spine; else very good.

 

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