MARTINELLI, AGOSTINO. Stato del Ponte Felice rappresentato alli eminentissimi, e reverendissimi Signori Cardinali della S. C. dell'Acque. 2 folding etched plates; large folding engraved map of the Tiber; 16 etched text illustrations. [8], 100, [12] pages, including final blank. 4to, 217x161 mm, old vellum boards; occasional heavy browning of text, worming in blank upper outer corners toward beginning, blank upper outer corner of title restored, plates and map relatively clean, old stamp and scored inscription on title, front free endpaper lacking. Rome: Nicolò Angelo Tinassi, 1682
first edition of the first of 3 reports by Martinelli to the Congregazione delle Acque e Strade, the Papal body responsible for bridges, aqueducts, and roads, concerning the rebuilding of the Ponte Felice over the Tiber near Magliano Sabina north of Rome. "The project involved the redirecting of the Tiber . . . and the reinforcing of the river banks with wooden piles"--BAL/RIBA Early Printed Books 2071. Riccardi II, 123.
