Nov 08, 2011 - Sale 2260

Sale 2260 - Lot 95

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FONTANA, DOMENICO. Della Transportatione dell'Obelisco Vaticano et delle fabriche di Nostro Signore Papa Sisto V. 2 volumes in 1. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Fontana and 32 (of 38) plates in first part; 15 plates (of 18) in second part. Folio, contemporary calf, early partial rebacking, still heavily worn; supplied title from the first edition (1590) and some leaves possibly supplied, scattered wear, some margins cropped, a few leaves repaired along verso, majority of important plates still present. Should be seen. sold as is. Naples, 1604

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second edition, with the inclusion of "Libro Secondo." Fowler 125. Recording and illustrating one of the greatest engineering feats of the Renaissance. Fontana directed the successful transportation of the Vatican obelisk from the spina of Nero's Circus to the front of the future new site of St. Peter's.