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ADAM, ROBERT. Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia. 60 (of 61) etched or engraved plates on 53 (of 54) leaves, including 13 double-page or folding; lacks plate 6 (General Plan of the Palace restored). iv, [8], 33 pages, including subscribers' list. Folio, 529x382 mm, 20th-century linen, worn; light marginal soiling on title and some plates. [London]: Printed for the Author, 1764
first edition of Adam's monograph on the late 3rd-/early 4th-century palace of Diocletian at Split, the first publication of measured drawings of the site, "a magnificent volume sumptuously engraved by Bartolozzi and others" (Colvin). Berlin Katalog 1893; Colvin, page 47; Fowler 2; Millard II, 1.
