Templum Vaticanum et ipsius origo cum aedificiis maximè conspicuis antiquitùs, & recèns ibidem constitutis; editum ab equite Carolo Fontana deputato celeberrimi ejusdem Templi Ministro, atque architecto. Cum plerisque regulis, novisque architecturae operationibus ab ipsomet in lucem evulgatis. Cum indice rerum notabilium ad calcem locupletissimo. Opus in septem libros distributum, Latinisque literis consignatum a Joanne Jos: Bonnervë de S. Romain. ...
Fontana, Carlo
Category
Books
Date
1694
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3009225
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 489, [29] p. (including [79] plates) : ill., plans ; fol. With 32 initial unnumbered pages; Italian title page precedes Latin title page; without the portrait of Fontana. Imperfect: wanting all after p. 425. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [probably William Windham II (1717-1761)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf (front and rear covers torn, partially missing); sewn on six supports; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title 'Fontani Templum Vatican' lettered directly onto spine; red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Fontana, Carlo, author Bonnervë de Saint Romain, Giovanni Giuseppe, translator Alessandro Specchi (Rome 1668-1729), engraver (printmaker) Fontana, Carlo, artist