Beschryving van oud en niew Rome, verdeelt in drie deelen [...]. Achter Oud Romen is gevoegt; Het antyke graf der Nazoonen, afgetekent en in't koper gebragt door P. Sanctus Bartolus, nevens de uitleggingen over aaloude schilderyen, van J. Petrus Bellorius [- Beschryving van 't niew of hedendaagsch Rome [...] zynde het vervolg van Oud Rome [...]. Met schoone kopere printverbeeldingen versiert].

3 parts in 2 vol., folio: [28]-160, [6]-260-[24], [24]-161/360-[6]-363/479-[83] pp. (some browning, and (damp)staining in the margins, but rather in good condition).

Contemp. marbled gilt-ruled and gilt-stamped calf, gilt-orn. spines with 6 raised bands, marbled edges (vol. 1: head repaired, tail and joints def., some scratches and rubbings on boards).

Dutch translation by Willem van Ranouw (1673-1724) of works by F.J. Deseine (d. 1715), a Frenchman who lived for many years in Rome where he was active as a bookseller and publ. Profusely ill. with 124 engr. folding, double- or full-page pl. representing monuments of Rome, tombs, temples, archs, obelisks, therms, naumachias, views of modern Rome, etc.
Vol. 1 (Oud Rome): front. by I. Baptist after J. Goeree, 1 title-vign. by J. van Vianen after Goeree, 2 headpieces, 2 initials, 60 plates by J. Baptist or J. van Vianen after Goeree (incl. a large folding city plan of old Rome, a map of Italy, 3 other maps, some city plans and 8 folding pl.) and 21 half-page ill. in text, - a Dutch translation of "Le pitture antiche del sepolcro de Nasonii" by the Italian art historian and painter Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613 ?-1696) ill. with 15 full-page engr. plates after Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) showing 35 paintings, - and "De aaloudheden...", Dutch trsl. Basil Kennett (1674-1715) "Romae antiquae notitia" ill. with a front. by J. Baptist after Goeree, 1 title-vign., 1 headpiece, 3 folding maps (i.a. "Romani imperii occidentalis et orientalis"), 10 double-page folding pl., 6 full-page and 20 ill. in text.
Vol. 2: 2 different front. by Baptist or Eland after Goeree, 2 ident. title-vign., 1 headpiece, 1 initial and 26 plates of which 20 double-page, incl. a splendid large city plan of Rome after J.B. Falda, a folding map of Italy and 14 views of Rome "ad vivum" after L. Cruyl.
Ref. Klaversma/Hannema 436. - STCN (i.a. BL). - BnF. - Cp. Cicognara 3698-3699 (French ed.).
Prov. H.P. v. Welderen baron Renders (arm. bookpl.).