Author: NIBBY (Antonio):
Title: Del Foro Romano Della via Sacra dell'Anfiteatro Flavio e de' Luoghi Adjacenti Opera di Antonio Nibby Membro Ordinaria dell'Accademia Romana di Archeologia.
Description: Roman Presso Vincencozo Poggioli Stampatore della R. C. A. 1819. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large 8vo, 223 x 144 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 259 [260 - 261 approbations, 262 imprint], folding engraved plates at pages 178, 179, 236, 242, one full-page engraved plate opposite page 208, transcription printed horizontally on page 126, entirely uncut, original plain paper wrappers (slightly soiled); short tear in lower margin of pages 75/76, paper flaw on lower outer margin of pp. 83/84, but a very good copy. The Italian archaeologist and topographer (1792 - 1830) Antonio Nibby began working for the Vatican when he was 20 excavating Roman monuments, the results of which were published in three books in 1819, including this one, which covers the area around the Forum in Rome, one of the most celebrated locations for trade, commerce, and socializing in the ancient world. In the next year, in the competition or "concorso" for a chair, he was the winner for a post in the Cattedra di Archeologia nell'Archiginnasio Romano. Nibby also worked with the English archaeologist Sir William Gell on a book about the walls of Rome, which was published in 1820. Olschki 17656. Rossetti 7354.

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