BARTOLI, Pietro Santi [c1635-1700] & Gio[vanni] Pietro BE...

Columna Cochlis M.Aurelio Antonino Augusto Dicata eius rebus gestis in Germanicam, atque Sarmaticam expeditione insignis, ex S. C. Romae ad viam Flaminiam erecta...

      oblong folio. 82 engraved plates (incl. title & dedication). Uncut in 19th century half roan (some light wear to edges, leaves rehinged at time of binding, occasional light marginal foxing, title bit soiled). Rome: Domenico de Rossi, 1704-[08]. Second Edition (first: c1672). The column of Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 174), similar in size and design to Trajan's but with larger, deeper-cut figures, was erected in the Piazza Colonna to commemorate the Emperor's victorious campaigns against the German tribes north of the Danube. The crowning statue of Marcus Aurelius was replaced in 1589 by the existing statue of S. Paul. Berlin Kat. 3623 (lacking 3 plates, numbered I-III). Brunet I 758. Cicognara 3605.