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Roma - Foggini, Pier Francesco

Fastorum Roman years to Verrio Flacco ordinatorum reliquiae ex marmorearum tabularum fragmentis praeneste nuper eoffossis, 1779

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Rome, Benedetto Francesi, 1779 (1780). In 2 °. Chalcographic portrait of Augustus at the front door designed by Carlo Maratta and engraved by Auden Aert, frontispiece with large chalcographic border depicting the months of the year in historiated medallions, engraved heads and endings, 6 full-page engraved plates of which 2 folded, in and out of the text, depicting the marble epigraphs of the Fasti Romani for individual months, according to the fragments found in Preneste, on p. 97 full-page chalcographic antiporta of the part "Fasti sacri veterum romanorum ex calendariis marmoreis", various papers with redness and stains, original binding in half leather, decorated woodblock paper plates, worn.


Specialist Notes

First edition edited by the archaeologist and custodian of the Vatican Library Pier Francesco Foggini and based on the finds and fragments, found in 1770, of a Roman rural calendar of the Augustan age engraved in epigraphic form on marble. Lipsticks 11315. & nbsp;