Venuti, Ridolfino ACCURATE AND SUCCINTH TOPOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF MODERN ROME. POSTHUMOUS WORK OF THE ABBOT RIDOLFINO VENUTI OF CORTONA, ... REDUCED TO A BETTER FORM, ENLARGED, AND ARRANGED WITH MANY COPPER FIGURES. In Rome, 1766, at Carlo Barbiellini.

One of the main and most comprehensive works on the topography of ancient Rome, a rare example from the complete edition of the 54 plates of iconographic apparatus, with monuments and views of Rome finely engraved on drawings also made by Giovanni Battista PIRANESI (1720-1778). Includes the plate depicting Villa Borghese. Marginal example, with genuine half-parchment bindings and boards covered in fine paper decorated with flowers and colored by hand; heraldic ex libris of William Charles de Meuron Earl Fitzwilliam on the inside covers; both volumes have small woodworm holes mostly marginal, with slight losses of text limited to the first leaves.