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Tuesday 06 December 2022 e Wednesday 07 December 2022, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Fabretti, Raffaele

De columna Traiani syntagma: Accesserunt explicatio veteris tavolae anaglyphae Homer Iliadem atque ex Stesichoro, Arctino et Lesche Ilii excidium continentis & emissarii lacus Fucini descriptio, 1683

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€ 350 - 450

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€ 1.024

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Information

Rome, Nicolo Angelo Tinassi, 1683. In 4th. With two large folded plates, woodcut vignette on the title page, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, 5 of which full-page, decorated woodcut headpieces and drop caps, some slight redness, coeval leather binding, author and title embossed in gold within green and red inserts on the back with 5 raised bands, back redone, minor defects.


Specialist Notes

First edition of the most famous work by Raffaele Fabretti (1618-1700) in which the antiquarian from Urbino offers a new interpretation of the meaning of the reliefs of Trajan's column.