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MARLIANI, BARTOLOMEO. Urbis Romae topographia. 23 woodcut illustrations, including 5 full-page, and double-page map of Rome. 6 leaves, 122, [2] pages, including colophon leaf with printers' device. Folio, 294x204 mm, modern leather blind-tooled to panel design in imitation period style; wormhole through preliminaries not impairing legibility, first few leaves heavily foxed, mostly moderate marginal foxing elsewhere, minor restoration on title, fore edge shaved, dark stains on last few leaves, lower inner corner of colophon leaf torn and crudely restored with slight loss to device. (Rome: Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544)
first illustrated edition, first issue, of Marliani's 1534 work on the topography, architecture, and antiquities of ancient Rome. Fowler 189; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 284; Schudt 606.
