Engraved throughout.

At head of title of part 1 elaborately engraved framed dedication to Cardinal Antonio Barberini. "Libro primo" follows title.

At head of title of part 2: engraved framed dedication to Cardinal Camillo Massimo. "Libro secondo" follows title.

Title page of "libro secondo" reads: Nvovi disegni dell'architettvre, e plante de' Palazzi di Roma de' piv celebri architetti, disegnati, et intagliati da Gio: Battista Falda, dati in luce da Gio: Giacomo de Rossi in Roma ...

Part I probably first issued in 1655, part II between 1670, the date Camillo Massimi, to whom the work is dedicated, was made a cardinal, and 1678, the date of Falda's death. Some plates in both part 1 and part 2 carry the imprint of Domenico de Rossi. This issue is estimated about 1700 or shortly thereafter in Fowler.

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Catalogue of seventeenth century Italian books in the British Library, vol. 1, p. 338

Fowler architectural collection of the Johns Hopkins University, p. 103-104.

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

"The first issues of the two parts appeared in 1655 and circa 1670-1678 respectively. ... [T]he mention of "Libro Primo" and "Libro secondo," together with the through-numbering of the plates, (also the presence of plates 44 in the Libro I, and 27 in Libro II) indicates that this copy is from the later issue by Domenico de Rossi, after 1691"--Bookseller's description.

Lib. copy has laid in at front of volume: 3 handwritten unnumbered pages in unidentified hand with heading: "Table des planches contenues dans ce volume."