Le antiche lucerne sepolcrali figurate raccolte dalle caue sotterranee, e grotte di Roma. Nelle quali si contengono molte erudite memorie. Disegnate, ed intagliate nelle loro forme da Pietro Santi Bartoli diuise in tre parti con l'osseruationi di Gio: Pietro Bellori.
Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700)
Category
Books
Date
1691
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3102588
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 16, 15, [1], 12 p., [1], 37, [1], 46, [1], 33 leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Running number: 6263. Variant edition: with "Si vendono in bottega di Simone d'Anagni libraro à S. Marco" printed beneath imprint and pt. 2 half-title reading "Le lucerne antiche sepolcrali figurate parte seconda nella quale si contengono varij riti, giochi funebri et openioni de gli antichi circa i defonti". Provenance: manuscript inscription at head of preliminary half-title, scribbled over in ink, beneath which is written "Ae". Binding: late-seventeenth or eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto six raised bands; covers have a double and single gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with star and fleur-de-lys stamps, floral rolls and other tooling; brown goatskin label with gilt title on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700), engraver (printmaker) Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613 - Rome 1696), editor Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700), artist