Joannis Petri Bellorii Romani Adnotationes nunc primum evulgatae in XII. priorum Caesarum numismata ab Aenea Vico Parmensi olim edita noviter additis eorundem Caesarum imaginibus majori forma à praestantioribus calchographis aeri incisis eminentissimo ac reverendissimo principo domino D. Alexandro S. Mariae in Cosmedin S.R.E. diacono Cardinali Albano dictatae.
Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613 - Rome 1696)
Category
Books
Date
1730
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3079445
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 81, [1] p., [84] leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Running number: 6284. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 84. Tabb." [i.e. catalogue code and note about the plates, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto six sewing supports; six raised bands; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with fillet, roll and stamp decoration; brown goatskin title label on spine. Red and brown mottled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613 - Rome 1696) Bellisarius Amidei Enea Vico (1523-1567) Etienne Picart (Paris 1632 - Amsterdam 1721), engraver (printmaker) Guillaume Vallet (1632-1704), engraver (printmaker)