[Rome].
Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, s.a. [c. 1721-30s].
Recentis Romae ichnographia et hypsographia sive planta et facies ad magnificentiam qua sub Alexandro VII. P.M. urbs ipsa directa, exculta et decorata est.
A fresh and bright example of this rare separately issued version of Giovanni Battista Falda’s (1643-78) important 1667 two-sheet plan of Rome (called the pianta piccola), republished during the first half of the 18th century by the Amsterdam publishers Johannes Covens (1697-1774) and Cornelis Mortier (1699-1783). “Falda’s pianta piccola was..... More