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Description

1. 108, [4] l. 38 plates, port.; 42 cm.

Alternative title

1. Del modo tenuto nel trasportare l'obelisco vaticano.

Subject

1. Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590.
2. Obelisco vaticano (Vatican City)

Call number

1. Parsons *KB+ 1590 (Fontana, D. Della Trasportatione Dell' Obelisco Vaticano)

Language

1. Italian

Note

1. Engraved half-title (Del Modo Tenvto Nel Trasportare L'Obelisco Vaticano. E Delle Fabriche Fatte Da Nostro Signore Sisto .V. Libro. P.⁰) with portrait of author within architectural border (including arms of Sixtus V and of Fontana), signed: Natalis Bonifacius Sibenicen. Dalmatinus Incidebat. Romæ. 1589.
2. No more published.
3. Engraved t.-p., signed: Intagliato da Natal Bonifatio da Sibenicco.
4. With colophon.
5. Three of the plates are numbered 66 secondo, 75 secondo and 76 primo. Plate 65 is double and pl. 75 secondo is a folded plate of three leaves.
6. Book 2 first appeared with the reprint of book 1, Naples, 1604 (q.v.)
7. With photograph of the mural in the Vatican Library depicting the moving of the obelisk, pasted on inside of back cover.
8. Bound in vellum, gilt, with hand-painted super-libros of an unidentified member of the house of Aragon.

Indexed in (note)

1. Brunet

Local note

1. Parsons Collection.

Author

1. Fontana, Domenico, 1543-1607.

Indexed in:

1. Brunet, II, 1329

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

LCCN

1. 64058226