Recentis Romae ichnographia et hypsographia sive planta et facies ad magnificentiam qua sub Alexandro VII. P.M. urbs ipsa directa, exculta et decorata est
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2-sheet etching/engraving 26 1/8 x 34 1/4 inches the platemark . A fine copy, with a few soft folds, crisp and bright. 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
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