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MAZZOCCHI, JACOPO. Epigrammata antiquae urbis. Full-page woodcut of the Pantheon on B2v; over 100 woodcut borders in text. [10], 180, [8] leaves. Folio, 302x212 mm, contemporary vellum boards, recased, endpapers renewed; light dampstaining and minor worming in lower outer corners, dark dampstain in gutter of opening leaves, title and next leaf rehinged and heavily soiled in lower outer corners, blank lower outer corner of P4 restored, gathering [con] browned. (Rome: Jacopo Mazzocchi, April 1521)
first edition of the first printed collection of classical inscriptions, comprising examples found in different locations in Rome, also reprinting the glossary of Roman legal and administrative abbreviations by Valerius Probus. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 297 ("Mazzocchi's major work as a printer and antiquarian").
