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[Archeology/Rome] Secchi, Giampietro: The Antoninian Mosaic representing the school of athletes transferred by order of the reigning Supreme Pontiff Gregory 16... In Rome, Giuseppe & Francesco Salviucci 1843.
Format in-4°, mm. 285x220, pp. (8), 89, (1). 2 cc. of folding plates. Complete. Contemporary half-leather binding with gold lines on the spine. Boards covered in old marbled paper. Excellent copy, sporadic foxing and minimal signs of aging.
Old edition printed in Rome in 1843 by Giuseppe and Francesco Salviucci, work of the archaeologist and philologist Giampietro Secchi (1798-1856), with 2 large folded plates at the end (plan of the baths of Antoninus Caracalla & the mausoleum of the athletes).
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