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New Library acquisition: Urbis Romae topographia….

Published: October 27, 2010

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Bartolomeo Marliani. Urbis Romae topographia…. Rome, Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544. Includes 23 woodcut illustrations. First illustrated folio edition.

New Library acquisition: George Santayana Autograph Letter

Published: July 01, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: George Santayana. Autograph Letter, signed G Santayana, to George Rauh on the topic of Lawrence Grant White’s translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Dated January 31, 1950.

New Library acquisition: Delle ville e de' più notabili monumenti antichi della città di Tivoli

Published: June 03, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired Estevão Dias Cabral & Fausto Del Ré. Delle ville e de' più notabili monumenti antichi della città di Tivoli. Rome, Puccinelli, 1779. Includes folding maps and plans. First edition.

New Library acquisition: Le piante di Roma/ Le carte del Lazio

Published: April 25, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired Amato Pietro Frutaz. Le piante di Roma. Rome, Istituto di Studi Romani, 1962 and Le carte del Lazio. Rome, Istituto di Studi Romani, 1972. Both titles contain three volumes with foldout plates.

New Library acquisition: Papal Conclave Broadsheets

Published: April 24, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following items: Papal Conclave Broadsheets. 1700-1774.

New Library acquisition: Compendio delle grandezze dell’illustre, et devotissima chiesa di Santa Maria del Populo di Roma

Published: April 08, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Jacopo Alberici. Compendio delle grandezze dell’illustre, et devotissima chiesa di Santa Maria del Populo di Roma. Rome, Stamperia Camerali, 1600. Includes five full-page engravings. First Italian edition.

New Library acquisition: Urbis Romae ichonographia….

Published: April 08, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections recently acquired the following item: Leonardo Bufalini/ Giovanni Battista Nolli. Urbis Romae ichonographia…. Nuremberg, Homann Erben, 1755. Four joined sheets, each hand colored.

New Library acquisition: Nuova Pianta di Roma

Published: April 08, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Giovanni Battista Nolli. Nuova Pianta di Roma data in luce da Giambattista Nolli. Rome, 1748. First edition, second issue.

New Library acquisition: Opera del Caval

Published: April 04, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Architecture Library recently acquired the following item: Francesco Borromini. Opera del Caval. Rome, Sebastiani Giannini, 1720. Includes 47 plates engraved after the architect’s drawings, 51 etched or engraved plates in total. First edition.

New Library acquisition: Stvdio d’architettvra civile

Published: March 31, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Architecture Library has recently acquired the following item: Domenico de Rossi. Stvdio d’architettvra civile….. Rome, printed for the author, 1702-1721. Three volumes in one. Includes 287 engraved plates, many of which fold out. First edition.

New Library acquisition: Antiquae urbis splendor

Published: March 10, 2010

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Giacomo Lauro. Antiquae urbis splendor….. Rome, 1612-1615.

New Library acquisition: Delle navigationi et viaggi

Published: December 01, 2009

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections recently acquired the following item: Giovanni Battista Ramusio. Delle navigationi et viaggi. Venice, Luca-Antonio Giunta, 1554, 1583, 1606.

New Library acquisition: Historia Fiorentina

Published: December 01, 2009

Author: Tracy Bergstrom

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections recently acquired the following item: Leonardo Bruni. Historia Fiorentina. Venice, Jacobus Rubeus, 1476.

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